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Family affair!
At the New York City premiere ofhis new thrillerOldon Monday, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan brought his wife Bhavna — whom he wed in 1993 — plus their three daughters,Shivani, 16,Ishani, 21, andSaleka, 25 next month.
Sharing aphoto from the event on Instagram, Shyamalan, 50, wrote, “The family in nyc for the Premiere of @oldthemovie. They grow up so fast… There’s a film coming out about that, I think,” hinting at the subject matter of the thriller, which sees a family grappling with an ominous beach where they rapidly age.
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The Oscar nominee and Ishanispoke toThe New York Timesin January about working together as a father-daughter duo.
“I knew she would be a filmmaker, but I never pushed her into it. We’d watch a movie and she would really connect with what we were watching. She was able to discern what was exceptional about what we had watched,” he recalled.
She added of living up to a famous last name, “There are certain expectations the last name brings. But I love that, because it’s something for me to knock down. Hopefully, I put my own artistic stamp on what I create. Of course there are benefits. I was lucky to be born into a life where I have the resources to make what I want to make, something that not all women of color have.”
“What I can say is it came from a book that Ishana and my other daughters gave me for Father’s Day,” he said. “It’s an obscure graphic novel. This book gave me the opportunity to work through things like my parents' getting older, and how I have aphoto of Ishana on my lap duringUnbreakableand now she’s standing next to me on set. That’s what the movie is about.”
Oldis now playing in theaters.
source: people.com
