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Indian Express
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Navya Naveli opens up on not choosing films as career like brother Agastya: ‘Spent childhood listening to my father talk about tractors'
Navya Naveli Nanda, the granddaughter of megastar Amitabh Bachchan and veteran actor Jaya Bachchan, chose not to be an actor. In fact, she's not even remotely associated with the film industry, just like her parents — Nikhil Nanda and Shweta Bachchan — but unlike her brother Agastya Nanda, who made his acting debut a couple of years ago. 'I grew up in Delhi, so a large part of my childhood was spent watching and listening to my father talk about business, and more specifically, tractors. From a very young age, that is what excited me. I never wanted to join films; I wanted to be an entrepreneur,' said Navya. Her father Nikhil Nanda, based out of Delhi, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Escorts Kubota Limited, an engineering MNC which specializes in agricultural, construction and railways equipment and machinery. In the interview with Elle, Navya added, 'Absolutely nothing about where I come from, or who I am, or who my family is has ever been and will ever be a weight. It has only given me immense pride to belong to where I do. I carry each and every aspect of it with pride, and more importantly, responsibility. All I do is to make my family proud.' Navya, however, claims she acknowledges her privilege and tries to make the best use of it. 'I have always accepted the privilege I come from. It has allowed me to be who I am today. I am accepting of the fact that I was given many opportunities at a very young age that have allowed me to be where I am today, and for that, I will always be grateful. Making the most of those opportunities and doing justice to them is all that matters — giving it the best you can and not taking it for granted,' she said. A 27-year-old entrepreneur, Navya not only helps out her father in his business, but also runs a healthcare brand called Navya Care and an NGO on gender rights called Project Naveli. After spending most of her day working on these ventures, Navya spends four hours in the evening studying for her Blended Post Graduate Programme (BPGP) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. Navya also hosts a podcast called What The Hell Navya on which she appears alongside Shweta and Jaya Bachchan. 'I think both of them have taught me the fine balance between strength and vulnerability. Both mom and Nani have never shied away from being who they are: confident and bold. They embody the kind of woman I would hope to shape into one day,' she said. Also Read: Shweta Bachchan fires back as daughter Navya Naveli omits her, Jaya Bachchan from Rann of Kutch holiday pics Navya's brother Agastya Nanda made his acting debut with Zoya Akhtar's period coming-of-age film The Archies on Netflix India in 2023. He'll be next seen in Sriram Raghavan's war drama Ikkis.
Geek Tyrant
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Marvel's GOTG Vol. 3 Actor Will Poulter Rumored to Be Set to Play Obscure Superhero in His DC Debut — GeekTyrant
Will Poulter ( Midsommar , Dopesick , The Bear , Death of a Unicorn ) made his Marvel debut in the James Gunn trilogy finale, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as the fumbling heroic character Adam Warlock, who had his reservations about the Guardians but ended up saving them in a pinch and becoming a trusted ally. He did well by the fans and by Gunn, who famously loves to work with the actors he calls his friends repeatedly. So it's not much of a stretch to hear the rumor that Poulter may have secretly signed on to make his DCU debut in an upcoming project that Gunn is at least producing as the head of DC Studios. The DC fan account Gunnverse posted about this rumor over the weekend (via CB), apparently from sources familiar with the negotiations between DC Studios and Poulter. They heard that Poulter would make his DCU debut in another show or movie first before headlining an Adam Strange series for Max himself. Insiders reportedly even said that this show is assembling a writers' room already. Adam Strange is one of DC Comics' oldest characters, first appearing in 1958. He is an archeologist studying ancient sites in Peru when he stumbles across a teleportation device that sends him to a planet called Rann. Strange learns about their advanced technology, and is able to travel back and forth between Rann and Earth whenever the teleportation is possible. If this is true, it's probably still quite a ways off, seeing as DC's current slate is pretty dang full. But it would be fun to see the studio explore a character we haven't really seen done before. What do you think? In the meantime, Gunn's big screen DC kickoff film Superman is just over two months away, and I am looking forward to seeing how he makes this story his own.
