India's most famous couple - actress and model Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan - have had a baby girl. As the latest addition to one of a small number of acting and producing dynasties that dominate Bollywood, will she grow up to be an actress?
If the odds, or the genes, are to be believed, then the newly born daughter to the Bachchan-Rais is destined for the silver screen.
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She might only be in the first week of her life, but being born into Bollywood royalty gives her a head start like no other.
Her mother is Aishwarya Rai, the face of L'Oreal, a former Miss World, who has starred in a number of Bollywood films.
Her father is Abishek Bachchan, a Bollywood actor who is rarely far from the front pages of magazines.
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Indians are emotional people and are film crazy, if they like an actor... they'll pass on that love to the son or daughter”
SMM Ausaja Bollywood historian
Her grandmother is actress Jaya Bhaduri. And her grandfather is India's most famous man, Amitabh Bachchan, a Bollywood megastar whose career has spanned decades.
Blood is thick in Bollywood.
There are eight-to-10 prominent families who control at least 65% of the Indian film industry, says SMM Ausaja, a Bollywood historian and author.
The vast majority of the country's top acting talent is from a so-called "filmi" family, of either actors or producers.
Salman Khan, Kareena and Karishma Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt and Bobby and Sunny Deol are just some of the star names belonging to powerful Bollywood families.Read More
