In the Hindi film industry, a newcomer’s patron is called a godfather. Tab Hansal Mehta ne Rajkumar ka talent dekhe aur actor ke godfather ban gaye. Then Hansal Mehta saw Rajkummar’s talent and became the actor’s godfather, a Hindi film site writes of the actor Rajkummar Rao.
Actors who arrive without one say so. “I don’t have any particular godfather, who is always there and helping me out,” Kriti Sanon said in 2017. The actor Amit Sadh said in 2015: “I don’t believe in godfather. I believe that I have a God.”