prosenjit adds manikda ray had asked me whether i wanted my daughters to join films when satyajit ray had asked madhabi mukherjee if she wanted her daughters to join the film industry the charulata actress had answered in the negative my son ujaan is a good actor but they often dont fancy acting as a profession because of its unpredictability factor koel says had there been a steady growth the choices might have been different birsa adds a hobby is fine though ganguly says yet there are countless examples of icons of bengali cinema who like madhabi never insisted that movies be the only career option for their children thats why the term cinemae nama had gained currency in bengal when biswajit chatterjees son prosenjit joined movies it was not the legacy that was the driving factor bengal has bypassed this trend too saswata chatterjee followed his doctorturnedactor father subhendus footsteps and joined movies the association of movies with lose morals and drinking is also not uncommon in tollywood birsa dasgupta and his brother ribhu are the third generation directors from bengal bapi subhendu himself could have afforded a lavish lifestyle had he simultaneously practiced as an orthopaedic and also acted in movies incidentally koel mullick and her husband nishpal singh rane are the only second generation filmi couple in tollywood birsa however says it was more to do with his personal passion in movies that brought him into this field it was his passion for movies that got preference ekta kapoor has balaji telefilms eventually both her daughters mimi and ranjabati joined the teaching profession in common parlance joining movies meant some sort of a fall my father is passionate about music uday chopra despite his failure as an actor is still very much into movies because of his crucial role in yashraj films most of the children of my fathers actor friends havent taken up acting very seriously director tapan sinha and actor arundhuti devis son anindya is a primatologist working as a professor at the national institute of advanced studies the film industry in mumbai is bigger than that of kolkata so is ronodeep soumitra chatterjees grandson and gaurav uttam kumars grandson but our industry has seen highs and lows birsa explains back then girls otherwise werent encouraged to join movies pursing arts is important for me and i am right now acting in my fifth film abhishek bachchan tusshar kapoor shahid kapur sunny deol bobby deol saif ali khan farhan akhtar and zoya akhtar whose fathers landed in bollywood and tasted success never thought of a career beyond movies but even after 35 years in the industry i have to think twice before i decide to buy one prosenjit admits im studying in class xi even if none of them run the hero will already have made crores it had taken a lot of effort for kanan bala to become kanan devi in the film industry he points out but neither