Lucky to Be Working With Dharma: Chunky Panday on Daughter Ananya

Ananya Panday will be starring in ‘Student of the Year 2’

Ananya Panday, who will be starring in Student of the Year 2, and father Chunky Panday.

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Bollywood actor Ananya Panday will be making her Bollywood debut with the Dharma film Student of the Year 2. Recently, her father Chunky Panday expressed how happy he was to see his daughter start off her acting career with Karan Johar’s production house.

She is a very lucky girl because her father never got a chance to work with Dharma Productions. I remember as a kid she used to ask me, ‘Dad, when are you going to go on Koffee With Karan?’ And now, I keep teasing her that you made it before me on Koffee With Karan.”

Chunky Panday to India Today

Ananya Panday will be making her debut alongside Tara Sutaria in the sequel of Student of the Year 2. Chunky Panday also spoke about how he hadn’t seen Ananya on set at all. But when he saw the trailer, he was overwhelmed and couldn’t help but reminisce about the beginning of his own career. Here’s what he had to say about his daughter:

“I am surprised the way she comes across on screen, maybe she is camera-friendly. I could not imagine her like this on-screen. It came to me as a pleasant surprise and a shock.”

Chunky Panday to India Today

Ananya Panday, even before the release of her debut film, has already bagged her second project. She will star in Pati, Patni Aur Woh alongside Bhumi Pednekar and Kartik Aaryan. Ananya also recently appeared on the cover of Indian fashion magazine Elle.

The trailer for Student of the Year 2 dropped just today and it looks like a lot of fun. You can watch it here:

(With inputs from India Today)