Twitter outraged as Vogue India picks SRK's daughter for cover

With currently no career in Bollywood, Suhana Khan's debut shoot is believed to be 'nothing but a nepotistic one'

Suhana Khan, the 18-year-old daughter of Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan, is finally making her entry into Bollywood. And like many other star kids, she's got a big launch pad: the newcomer recently sat her first-ever magazine interview with Vogue India.

“I absolutely loved shooting this cover," Suhana says in the interview. "Especially the dancing shots. I love dancing! It was so much fun. I was excited when my parents brought it up. I wanted to say yes straight away, but they wanted me to think about it as this a very public thing. They wanted me to gain confidence from the experience, not lose it."

Well, that's all well and good but Suhana's decision has created quite the outrage amongst Twitterati, who feel the shoot is "nothing but a nepotistic one."

https://twitter.com/Miisscassy/status/1024509440668647424

Meanwhile Suhana Khan needs vogue india handed to her on a platter without doing a damn thing. Good job BW, keep it up! 🤦🏾‍♀️ https://t.co/Hr3WnV3X2K

— Hetal (@hetall_patell) August 1, 2018

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https://twitter.com/SanchiNasta/status/1024532420077539328

Lordy, why is Suhana Khan in Vogue India magazine? What is she promoting? She gonna really have to put in the work cause her daddy is King Of Bollywood. Maybe I have to dig a bit deep but so far I don't see it🤷🏽‍♀️

— MB (@S_M_MMB) July 31, 2018

https://twitter.com/verysakshi/status/1024363688814436352

Suhana Khan on the Vogue India cover . I - pic.twitter.com/2eDsvkkOMN

— Applepie (@appy_desai) July 31, 2018

vogue india is becoming KJo of magazine world
PS: love how they say, "first ever vogue cover" and not, "a vogue cover" knowing well that there will be many more no matter what. no girls, that's not manifestations, that's just nepotismhttps://t.co/6Toq1P6IzA

— anvita (@anvitanath) July 31, 2018

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Well, can't say we didn't see that coming. Just some time ago, when Vogue India had featured another star kid Janhvi Kapoor - daughter of the late Sridevi and producer Boney Kapoor - on its cover, people were quick to shout out "nepotism" then too. This time around, they decided to lock down the comments on the post.

https://twitter.com/marlpnjasvori/status/1024516072643256321

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Ironically, the interview sees Suhana open up about the downside of being a star child. “I realised quite early on that it was different for us but I never really thought about my dad being famous. When I was about five, he would come and drop me to school and people would point and stare. He wasn’t being addressed as Suhana’s dad, which is what I wanted," she says. "It confused me. He would want to hug me and I would push him back in the car. I hated the attention, it made me very self-conscious. I realised if I wanted to hug my dad, he’s my dad — I’m just going to hug him."

PHOTO: VOGUE INDIA

But one thing was certain: Suhana would become an actor as well. “I don’t think there was any one moment when I decided. Since I was young, I’d do all these accents and impressions. But my parents only realised I was serious about acting when they saw a performance of mine for the first time," she reminisces.

Of her Bollywood debut, King Khan's only daughter commented, “There’s so much to learn and one way to do it is to start [working] early. But first, I want to go to university and finish my studies."

Suhana, who is currently studying in England, believes moving away at 16 was the best decision of her life. “Living in a different environment and meeting so many new people helped me gain a lot of confidence," she remarks. "It’s about being able to do the little things, like walk on the street or take the train — stuff that was so hard to do in Mumbai. But living away also made me appreciate home so much more.”

PHOTO: VOGUE INDIA

Thanks to her father's exponential career, the budding starlet has a very clear idea of what awaits her the moment she steps into showbiz. “At home, things are normal and everything is cool but the challenges are outside. I still find it hard because people feel like they can judge you, especially on social media," she goes on to say. "Pictures from my private Instagram account get leaked. There are so many people talking about you. They don’t know you and they don’t know what they’re talking about, but they’re just talking. And that can mess with your self-confidence."

Fortunately, Suhana already knows how to handle the stress. "I keep telling myself haters are going to hate, but I can’t honestly say that I don’t get upset by it. It’s annoying, but I keep telling myself other people have bigger problems."

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