{"id":101977,"date":"2025-10-26T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101977\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:39:11","slug":"her-father-was-a-superstar-she-joined-bollywood-because-of-her-mother-and-quit-in-5-years-then-became-a-new-york-times-bestseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101977\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Father Was A Superstar, She Joined Bollywood Because Of Her Mother And Quit In 5 Years, Then Became A New York Times Bestseller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/560327545_18531898894052469_1042756274732284665_n-1-2025-10-8297ebcea4eb2e8d8c7417af8aaa7d6b.jpg\" alt=\"Made her debut in the lights-camera-action industry with the 1995 film Barsaat, but she never had plans to step into the showbiz world despite coming from a legendary Bollywood family.\" title=\"Made her debut in the lights-camera-action industry with the 1995 film Barsaat, but she never had plans to step into the showbiz world despite coming from a legendary Bollywood family.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Made her Bollywood debut with the 1995 film Barsaat, but she never had plans to step into the showbiz world despite coming from a legendary Bollywood family.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-25-180013-2025-10-84a20abd5f850cd222adbc2126ade745.png\" alt=\"Daughter of Bollywood legends late superstar Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, the actress entered the entertainment industry opposite Bobby Deol and even earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.\" title=\"Daughter of Bollywood legends late superstar Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, the actress entered the entertainment industry opposite Bobby Deol and even earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Daughter of Bollywood legends &#8211; late superstar Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, the actress entered the entertainment industry opposite Bobby Deol. She also won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/566252299_18534723736052469_9027535583265302383_n-2025-10-03de4f5179bc3ad941c2f68d2ea96472.jpg\" alt=\"You must have easily guessed that we are talking about Twinkle Khanna. After 20 films and mixed box-office success, she stepped away from acting in the early 2000s.\" title=\"You must have easily guessed that we are talking about Twinkle Khanna. After 20 films and mixed box-office success, she stepped away from acting in the early 2000s.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> You must have easily guessed that we are talking about Twinkle Khanna. After 20 films and mixed box-office success, she stepped away from acting in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ErEUDD9XIAMzikR-2025-10-05f5c4b16529c0f5fb4fe7bff01eda0a.jpg\" alt=\"In her brief acting career, Twinkle appeared in films like Baadshah, International Khiladi, Mela, and Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai, among others.\" title=\"In her brief acting career, Twinkle appeared in films like Baadshah, International Khiladi, Mela, and Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai, among others.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> In her brief acting career, Twinkle appeared in films including Baadshah, International Khiladi, Mela, and Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GbChDDYbQAAaXj7-2025-10-f0e0e9b93e1709e39cc38b17c4f4a325.jpg\" alt=\"The actress has often said she never wanted to be an actress. It was her mother, Dimple Kapadia, who encouraged her to give acting a try before pursuing her own dreams.\" title=\"The actress has often said she never wanted to be an actress. It was her mother, Dimple Kapadia, who encouraged her to give acting a try before pursuing her own dreams.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> The actress has often said she never wanted to be an actress. It was her mother, Dimple Kapadia, who encouraged her to give acting a try before pursuing her own dreams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759749986_Twinkle-Khanna-6-2025-10-6bafea5d62606998eebd3f85cfeb142c.jpg\" alt=\"At the Tweak India Summit for 2025, Twinkle recently shared how her early failures shaped her resilience. Recalling the hard times, she has seen in her life, especially professionally, Twinkle said that she is grateful for them.\" title=\"At the Tweak India Summit for 2025, Twinkle recently shared how her early failures shaped her resilience. Recalling the hard times, she has seen in her life, especially professionally, Twinkle said that she is grateful for them.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> At the Tweak India Summit for 2025, Twinkle shared how early failures shaped her resilience. Talking about the hard times she has seen in her life, especially professionally, Twinkle said that she is grateful for them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759749977_Twinkle-Khanna-2-2025-10-e8f32a25e98f82d2f95c11548792c4b8.jpg\" alt=\"In a throwback interview with Lehren, she admitted, \u201cI hadn\u2019t even thought of becoming an actress back then. I wanted to be an accountant.\u201d\" title=\"In a throwback interview with Lehren, she admitted, \u201cI hadn\u2019t even thought of becoming an actress back then. I wanted to be an accountant.\u201d\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> In a throwback interview with Lehren, she admitted, \u201cI hadn\u2019t even thought of becoming an actress back then. I wanted to be an accountant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FotoJet-2025-10-23T084208.903-2025-10-9be2c0e5cf1e16da752b284580048ddc.jpg\" alt=\"She added that growing up around film stars didn\u2019t spark a desire for fame. \u201cI have grown up among actors since childhood, hence I was never attracted towards fame. I just felt it was coming to me,\u201d Twinkle stated.\" title=\"She added that growing up around film stars didn\u2019t spark a desire for fame. \u201cI have grown up among actors since childhood, hence I was never attracted towards fame. I just felt it was coming to me,\u201d Twinkle stated.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> She added that growing up around film stars didn\u2019t spark a desire for fame. \u201cI have grown up among actors since childhood, hence I was never attracted towards fame. I just felt it was coming to me,\u201d Twinkle stated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/541887671_18415007785112131_5454986720127574522_n-2025-10-ef68621a719563ac135852c7537a6a31.jpg\" alt=\"Now a bestselling author and columnist, the former actress is currently seen in Prime Video\u2019s talk show, Two Much With Kajol &amp; Twinkle.\" title=\"Now a bestselling author and columnist, the former actress is currently seen in Prime Video\u2019s talk show, Two Much With Kajol &amp; Twinkle.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Now a bestselling author and columnist, Twinkle Khanna is currently seen in the talk show, Two Much With Kajol &amp; Twinkle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image-261-2025-10-7d72733a9fe26bc57b4e7f886936acf3.jpg\" alt=\"The chat show offers everything from unfiltered talks, hilarious moments, spicy gossip, cherished memories, and a dash of spicy linkups and rumours.\" title=\"The chat show offers everything from unfiltered talks, hilarious moments, spicy gossip, cherished memories, and a dash of spicy linkups and rumours.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> The chat show offers everything from unfiltered moments to B-Town gossip.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/568602526_18421991692112131_4333282757133553697_n-2025-10-bc745304900e1a84b73a3ef3c5aae0c0.jpg\" alt=\"Fans get to see a bunch of Bollywood and the industry\u2019s Who\u2019s Who, including Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Vicky Kaushal, Karan Johar, Kriti Sanon, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Janhvi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Govinda, and Chunky Pandey, among others.\" title=\"Fans get to see a bunch of Bollywood and the industry\u2019s Who\u2019s Who, including Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Vicky Kaushal, Karan Johar, Kriti Sanon, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Janhvi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Govinda, and Chunky Pandey, among others.\" class=\"jsx-6a1e32423ad68b39 lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p> From Salman Khan and Aamir Khan to Karan Johar and Janhvi Kapoor, the guest list is keeping fans hooked.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Made her Bollywood debut with the 1995 film Barsaat, but she never had plans to step into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5527,430,156,111,139,69,9645],"class_list":["post-101977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bollywood","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-twinkle-khanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}