{"id":190270,"date":"2025-12-18T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:41:11","slug":"ishaan-khatter-says-actors-are-very-coddled-in-india-reflects-on-entourage-culture-in-hollywood-i-was-doing-my-own-laundry-every-day-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190270\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishaan Khatter says actors are \u2018very coddled\u2019 in India, reflects on entourage culture in Hollywood: \u2018I was doing my own laundry every day\u2019 | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ishaan Ishaan Khatter<\/a> is currently basking in happiness as his film \u2018Homebound\u2019 has been shortlisted for the 98th Academy Awards<\/a> in the Best International Feature Film category. The recognition marks an important milestone in the actor\u2019s career and reflects how his work is travelling beyond Indian cinema. As Ishaan celebrates this achievement, he is also opened up about how different work cultures shape an actor\u2019s experience, especially when it comes to entourage culture.Having worked from Bollywood to Hollywood, Ishaan has seen two very different systems closely. After working on the international project \u2018The Perfect Couple\u2019, the actor shared his views on the absence of entourage culture in Hollywood and why he feels actors in India are often overly protected. <\/p>\n

Ishaan Khatter Opens Up On Being Born To A Muslim Mother And A Hindu Father!<\/p>\n

Experiencing Hollywood without an entourage<\/p>\n

Speaking about \u2018The Perfect Couple\u2019, which was shot in Cape Cod, Ishaan described a working environment that removed many layers of comfort he was used to on Indian film sets. There were no assistants, no personal staff, and no familiar safety net.In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, he said, \u201cThey gave me a house and a car and then asked me to drive myself to set.\u201dWithout a personal team, Ishaan handled every part of his routine on his own while shooting \u2018The Perfect Couple\u2019. \u201cI was doing my own laundry every day. I was cleaning, cooking for myself, learning my lines while driving to set,\u201d Khatter said.For more than three months, he worked without anyone from his entourage. The absence of familiar faces made the experience more challenging. He added, \u201cI didn\u2019t know a single person there; I didn\u2019t have a single person from my team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ishaan reflected on how actors are coddled<\/p>\n

The experience led Ishaan to reflect on how actors in India are often treated. He said, \u201cWe are very coddled, especially as actors.\u201d While he understands that access to domestic help in India is cultural and employment-driven, Ishaan feels it is important to question how easily comfort turns into expectation.<\/p>\n

Questioning entitlement versus real necessity<\/p>\n

For Ishaan, the issue lies in not questioning what is truly required, \u201cWhere is the limit? That should be an individual question. It can\u2019t be the expectation generally.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sharing experiences from \u2018Homebound\u2019 sets<\/p>\n

Recalling his work on Neeraj Ghaywan<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Homebound\u2019, Ishaan explained how minimalism was part of the director\u2019s clear vision, \u201cNeeraj was very specific. We had one hair and makeup team for all the actors because there was a set look. I was very happy to let go of my people.\u201dAt the same time, Khatter recognises that certain roles demand extra preparation. Speaking about \u2018The Royals\u2019, he explained why additional support was essential. \u201cFor \u2018The Royals\u2019, they needed me to look like a prodigy horse rider in two months. So they had to get me a coach,\u201d he added.In such situations, Khatter feels that additional support has a clear reason and directly contributes to the role. When the help is tied to preparation or skill-building, it adds real value to the performance rather than becoming an unnecessary extra.However, Khatter believes the problem starts when spending goes beyond what a film genuinely requires. Ishaan points out that costs should only be incurred if they are essential to the project, stressing that anything unnecessary only adds pressure to productions and blurs the line between need and excess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ishaan Khatter is currently basking in happiness as his film \u2018Homebound\u2019 has been shortlisted for the 98th Academy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35124,6334,119051,5527,430,156,119054,4223,16472,119053,35157,111,139,69,119052],"class_list":{"0":"post-190270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-homebound","9":"tag-academy-awards","10":"tag-actors-in-india","11":"tag-bollywood","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-entourage-culture","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-ishaan-khatter","17":"tag-neeraj","18":"tag-neeraj-ghaywan","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-the-perfect-couple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190270","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=190270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}