Prateik Babbar Reveals Smita Patil's Family Fought Custody Battle With Raj Babbar
Prateik opened up about the custody battle his family endured and why he finally decided to change his name.
Earlier this year, Prateik Babar announced that he has dropped his father's surname and will now go by Prateik Smita Patil to honour his mother's legacy. He is the son of Raj Babbar and Smita Patil. Now, in a recent chat posted on Varinder Chawla's Instagram, the actor opened up about the custody battle his family endured and why he finally decided to change his name.
The actor said, 'I was born Prateik. There was a custody battle for me from my mom's side of the family and my father's side of the family. My mom's side won. There was still a battle for the surname. Finally, in the passport, it was 'Prateik Smit Babbar'."
'It wasn't even Smita, so growing up, I was 'Prateik Smit Babbar'. In school, everyone thought I was Christian because they would wonder, 'Why Smit?', no one cared for Babbar. Everyone just called me Smit," he said.
'In my first film, my name was Prateik Babbar, and then the devil got the better of me and I started thinking 'Kaun hai maa? Kaun hai baap? (Who is mom? Who is dad?)' Then I started thinking, 'I don't want to be Patil, I don't want to be Babbar. I want to be just Prateik.' For a few films, I was only Prateik because I was bitter about my parents. I was like, I don't want to belong to them. They have only given me trauma my entire life. I don't want to belong to them and then I continued with Prateik," he said.
Speaking about why he changed his name, the actor mentioned, 'I had to embrace that name, it makes me complete. Now, I am complete, I feel complete. Priya said 'Prateik, you owe it to her; she gave her life for you, you owe that, you are her son' and that hit different. I was like 'this is who I have to be'."
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