No nepotism in Bollywood
Nepotism is NOT the reason we see star kids dominate the big-budget Bollywood despite their flop show at box office. The reason is something else.
While riding a car/bus/train, sometimes, you see a forest. As you move ahead, admiring the tangled mess of lush trees suddenly, you see the trees in the forest align in neat rows. It is not a forest, you realise it is a tree plantation it was just your way of looking at it. The same is with Bollywood.
Money laundering is the name of the game.
Bollywood is a cog in the money laundering ecosystem. The system spans corrupt politicians, government officials, real estate developers, criminal gangs, cricketers, reporters etc. Bollywood is a mechanism for laundering black money into usable funds. For this system to work, we need trusted people.
Talent is immaterial.
That does not mean we need talentless people. It means your talent is valuable so long as you are compliant with the system. If you start throwing your weight demanding things that hurt the system, you get thrown out. But all your whims that feed into the system are OK. You want trafficked under-aged girls, no problems. You want designer drugs, sure!
Trust comes from leverage.
Blind trust does not exist in this criminal world. If you are to be trusted, you need to be part of some criminal activity that makes you equally guilty. The people in the system need to have that leverage over you. Then you get admitted. Everyone has limited leverage over everyone else. The leverage could be anything - drug smuggling, arms smuggling, naked pics or videos from illegal sexual encounters.
If someone, let us call him Sanju, stupidly poses with smuggled arms or admits to getting drugs, you can punish him but also cover for him. But if someone, let us call him Sushant, steps out of line, everyone can come together and bury him legally or illegally.
In sum
There is no nepotism in Bollywood. We need to shift our perspective to this is a well-organised efficient system - we will see all the trees are lined up perfectly.