Nepotism: 10 Bollywood peeps who are "famous" for nothing

Enjoying star status since 2015, Mira gets to address sizeable audience bodies on issues like feminism and motherhood, often makes insensitive tone-deaf remarks and gets away easily. Her presence is coveted on talk shows otherwise notorious for slandering raw talent. Invited to inaugurate charities, endorse beauty brands of repute, the girl from Delhi has done it all. We write about her fashion choices; you gorge on them. But why is Mira even relevant? One can't really enlist many of her achievements excluding being a star wife and mother of two star-kids.

In July 2018, superstar Shah Rukh Khan attended the Vogue Beauty Awards, and unveiled the August edition of the fashion magazine. Surprise Surprise! Clicked by famed Greek photographer Errikos Andreou, it was Suhana Khan gracing the cover of the esteemed glossy. The magazine cover introduced her as “Student, Theatre Lover, Future Star.” She was pursuing her academics at then with not a single accomplishment on her back. Were over-priced magazines running out of established and acknowledged celebs to place them on their cover? Being born to India’s biggest superstar comes with perks aplenty. Guess a magazine cover is among them.

The tiniest details of Khushi Kapoor's “looks”, hairstyle, ad-hoc appearances get written about. Her Bollywood debut is inevitable, but despite the buzz and speculation, there is no clarity on her first movie. No one knows if she is reading scripts or has signed on any dotted lines, yet the star status enjoyed by her is at par with any prominent actress with several hits in her kitty. The hype just doesn’t add up.

Daughter of a yesteryear actor and former wife of an influential Bollywood star, the fame accorded to Sussanne Khan keeps many deserving artists systematically deprived. Virtual media routinely posts about her tweets or videos uploaded on Instagram. Sure she is an interior designer, but how many interior designers with a similar profile and clientele can you name in a minute?

We are all guilty of fawning over this toddler, but in the process, we have ruined his childhood to a great extent. Something as trivial as little Taimur crying because his actress mother is leaving for a shoot makes headlines; the shutterbugs have often toed the line of privacy while capturing him. His running in a school competition has been covered by national media as news.

The Romanian model has the papz snapping her all day. Entertainment website keep updating us about her “how-s” and “where-s”, she commands a crazy following on Social Media as well. The 40-year-old beauty might have been an actress and TV presenter in Romania, but why is Bollywood's audience going gaga over her. Vantur’s only claim to fame is having a rumoured affair with Salman Khan.

Though the 27-year-old model has walked the ramp for designers like Sabyasachi and Manish Malhotra a few times, it was his link up with former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen that got him the recognition, and his name floated across news sites. Again, the discussions are seldom about any of his modelling gigs, and mostly for a cosy video featuring him posted by his famous girlfriend on her Instagram or a lovey-dovey capture.

Kangana Ranaut's sister is always in the news and for all wrong reasons. Though we empathise with her for standing out as a brave acid-attack survivor, the regular and ugly spats on social media that land her on headlines, are getting unsavoury now.

Born in a family of stars, married to an industrialist at a fairly young age, Shweta Bachchan evaded the limelight for years. Strangely enough though, she has emerged as a sought after celeb-figure in recent years. She is on magazines, walking ramps, "news" related to her has started doing rounds of the interwebs, and we seriously don't get why! Sure, she is sister of a working actor, Abhishek Bachchan and sister-in-law of the Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, but, why is she famous again?

The star sister is just as famous - if not more - as any Bollywood A-lister. Arpita has an assorted list of flings, stories of which kept the tabloids employed for years. Her high profile star-studded palace-marriage to Aayush Sharma (who was yet to become an actor) at Hyderabad's Taj Falaknuma Palace, was one of the exhaustively covered events of 2014. Clicked while attending parties, movie premieres, we have seen her frolicking in her life of luxuries, but the craze is quite unfounded.