She may come from a filmi family but Shweta Bachchan Nanda says she would be worried if her daughter Navya Naveli plans to be an actor.

While her father, Amitabh Bachchan's fame has lasted decades, and her mother Jaya, brother Abhishek and sister-in-law Aishwarya Rai, are prominent names in the industry, Shweta has her reservations about the work.

“I don't think it is as easy as it looks. You have to work extremely hard, especially if you are a woman. I wonder if she has in her to bear with all of it. Also, there's a lot of failure involved, which many people don't see. The failure is personal, your acting skills, the way you look on screen is slashed out in open,“ she said.

According to Shweta, the right way to become an actor is to “want and rightly prepare“ for it like her mother, not “stumble“ into it like her father. “My mother was the eldest daughter in the family. She graduated and told her father about her ambition of becoming an actor. Soon she joined acting school, and was a great student. I feel this is the way to go about it. Not because you see this as an easy way out. Instant fame and money in this industry is a myth,“ she recently said.

Shweta who is married to Delhi-based industrialist Rahul Nanda likes to maintain a low profile, and is extremely protective about her daughter despite the constant spotlight. The 42-year-old mother of two recently wrote an open letter asking the media to give her daughter her “private life“ back after Navya came under the spotlight with her pictures on the social media. ­