While Mithun Chakraborthy’s elder son faces the camera, the younger one is gearing up for a film direction course in New York
Mithun Chakraborthy made it the hard way. Maybe that’s why this three time National award-winning actor, still very much a superstar at the hinterland cinema, told his children categorically that they will have to toil rigorously to make inroads in whatever field they choose.
That’s also why his eldest son Mimoh (Mahakshay), on the verge of making his acing debut, got a clear ‘no’ for an answer when he asked daddy dearest to fund his launch vehicle. His debut plans have changed twice within two months, but Mithun is not budging from his stance. After all, he is a man of his words.
“We have been brought up that way. Dad wanted us to see the other side too. He always said that only hard work pays off and nothing else,” says Mimoh from Coimbatore, where they have a school and a string of hotels. And even as Mimoh plans to make Mumbai his karmabhoomi, kid brother Rimoh, all of 18 and just out of school, will now be off to New York to pursue a course in film direction at the New York Film Academy. Incidentally Mimoh learnt acting there.
“Rimoh (real name Ushmey) has just passed from our school here. Though he is quite bright in studies, he wants to study filmmaking. At home too, he never sits idle. He has made many films on handicam. That’s why dad thought that he should do what he feels like. In such matters dad is extremely encouraging,” says a proud Mimoh, who graciously addresses everyone as ‘Sir’.
Incidentally, Mimoh himself a school drop-out, feels that one should follow one’s heart. But he admits, “Education is crucial and dad has always stressed the importance of schooling.”
Meanwhile, Mimoh, who was earlier slated to make his debut with Deepak Sareen’s film, will now have a Hindi remake of a Telugu film as his introducing movie. “I have got both the scripts and they are fabulous. Dad wants me to be worthy of films. He wants me to be perfect and has always told me that cinema is his lifeline. That’s why I worked on everything - right from my physique to horse-riding to karate.”
Mimoh’s other siblings too want to associate themselves with movies. While his 13-year- old bother, Namoshi, wants to become an actor, his eight-year old sister, Dishani, aspires to be a model, “because she feels she is skinny and can make it!”
Perhaps, you couldn’t have really expected anything else from a family that’s prided itself for being part of a wonderful industry called Bollywood. Mind you, hotels and schools were always part-time professions for them.
s_ayaz@dnaindia.net
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