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 eventually both her daughters mimi and ranjabati joined the teaching profession rays son though had followed in his fathers footsteps 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 todays tollywood is largely an industry of outsiders in comparison the khandaan tag has literally become a passport to fame both in the hindi and south film industries hollywood too has its share of filmi dynasties including the famous coppola and baldwin families whats also interesting in bollywood is that once an outsider tasted success it became imperative that the next generation too would join the movies 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 bengal has bypassed this trend too directors apart from ray and harisadhan dasgupta hasnt had any direct descendent joining the movies director tapan sinha and actor arundhuti devis son anindya is a primatologist working as a professor at the national institute of advanced studies mrinal sens son kunal is passionate about movies but chose to become the chief technology development officer of encyclopdia britannica in chicago star sons and daughters too have largely followed the same path except for prosenjit saswata chatterjee konkona sen sharma koel mullick and swastika mukherjee there is only one example in the suchitra sen family where even the third generation has been smitten by the film bug of course uttam kumar and soumitra chatterjees grandsons have joined movies too but the second generations were never very active in films but the rest including chhabi biswas utpal dutt bikas roy bhanu bandopadhyay had other plans for their next generation read also praktan nears 2 crores in first week bo collections after the birth of rays grandson madhabi had gone to meet the little one manikda ray had asked me whether i wanted my daughters to join films i gave my reasons while answering in the negative i had told him that if she was successful in movies she would end up being lonely if she wasnt successful she would end up getting frustrated madhabi says by her own admission madhabi came from a conservative family everyone else was in a different profession it was only my mother who had the vision to understand that i had a future in movies back then girls otherwise werent encouraged to join movies today the scenario is different she adds raima the granddaughter of suchitra sen however insists that starsons and daughters are encouraged to join movies benuda sabysachi chakrabortys sons are into movies so is ronodeep soumitra chatterjees grandson and gaurav uttam kumars grandson the film industry in mumbai is bigger than that of kolkata