Overview

• He revealed on Rhea Chakraborty’s podcast on July 1 that he and his wife left their son Vardaan’s religion field blank on his birth certificate.
• Massey said the move aims to prevent his son from discriminating against others based on their religious practices.
• He described religion as a personal, man-made institution and said he follows rituals at temples, gurdwaras and dargahs to model pluralism.
• The actor cited his multi-faith family background—his father is Christian, mother Sikh and brother a Muslim convert—and said he married into a Rajput Thakur household.
• Online reactions have ranged from praise for encouraging equality and freedom of choice to criticism that the approach is unconventional.