It's difficult for an outsider to get work: Vivaan Shah

Actor Vivaan Shah says he managed to find work in Bollywood without using his family's name, but had he been an outsider it would have been difficult for him to get the roles.

Vivaan is the son of veteran actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah.

"I have made it on my own without using the name of my family. It would have been more difficult for me to get work if I was an outsider and the film industry would not even know anything about me," Vivaan told

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