Rich Kids of Bollywood: The Young, Loaded, Next Gen

India is famously indulgent of celebrity children in ways that borders on the profligate. Here’s a look at the Indian Second Gen Z-ers; young, wealthy and born to Bollywood.

On a talk show, Shwetha Bachchan, eldest daughter of Indian thespian Amitabh Bachchan, noted that she enjoys the best of two worlds; all the perks of peripheral fame courtesy of the most famous film family in India, and yet, all the privacy and normalcy of being a non-actor, left unbothered by selfie chasers.

With social media honing in and amplifying the otherwise private lives of star kids, Second Gen Z of Bollywood is living their best life on the ‘gram. Fresh out of high-school and pre graduation and career, their social media posts are montages of private jet-setting holidays, vacations on luxurious yachts, designer shopping sprees cosigned by very famous celebrity signatures on black Amexs. Here’s a look at generation next of Bollywood...

My feature on the young, second and third-gen Bollywood-ites, who are breathtakingly wealthy and spending like there's no tomorrow, is up online at SCMP.com - check it out here.