The eldest child of actors Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, Shweta Bachchan has worked as a model, columnist, author, and businesswoman in her professional career. In a recent podcast, she said she is not financially independent, however, she would like her children Navya Naveli Nanda and Agastya Nanda to choose a different path and ensure financial security.
Shweta tied the knot with businessman Nikhil Nanda in 1997, and welcomed daughter Navya the same year, and son Agastya in 2000. While Navya is a budding entrepreneur, Agastya is all set to make his acting debut next year with Netflix film ‘The Archies’. In a discussion in Navya’s debut podcast ‘What The Hell’, Shweta was asked if she made a special effort to explain the importance of financial independence to her daughter while she was growing up.
She replied, “Unfortunately, I am not financially independent and I’m not particularly an ambitious person and I make no bones about it. But that is not what I would want for my child. When I send my child to school, I am setting her up on a path where I hope that she will do something to support herself, and that’s my only requirement for both my children, Navya and Agastya. My requirement for both of them is not even think of starting a family or getting married if you don’t have enough money in the bank to pay rent or have your own place. I would like my daughter especially, to have financial security and I think it will give her tremendous confidence if it’s something she’s done on her own rather than using her father’s money.”
In her podcast, Navya talks to her mother Shweta and grandmother Jaya Bachchan about “various things from finance and fame to friendship and family.” A new episode is out every Saturday starting September 24, on IVM Podcasts and other audio streaming platforms.
