Overview

• Kapur made the comments in a Punjabi interview with SMTV that was reported by The Indian Express and News18 on Friday.
• He cited his own father’s encouragement and the maxim “You have burnt your boats, don’t look back,” saying he carried those lessons forward with his three children.
• Describing a hands-off approach to parenting, Kapur said his children could seek his counsel but must make their own decisions so they never blame him for failures.
• He added that fathers are “underrated,” a view he applies to himself, while expressing pride in Shahid’s achievements.
• The coverage revisits Shahid Kapoor’s account of being raised by his mother Neliima Azeem, starting as a background dancer, and refusing to ask his father for help, and notes Kapur’s separate remark that he lives a “middle-class life” and has not needed money from his children.