Navya Nanda Reveals She Once Built A Tractor With Her Own Hands: 'My Greatest Accomplishment...'

Amitabh Bachchan is one of the biggest superstars in Bollywood. Not just Amitabh, his entire family comprises some of the best acting talent and biggest superstars of their time. However, his granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda is an exception. Unlike her grandparents, Uncle Abhishek or Aunt Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Navya takes after her mother Shweta Bachchan career-wise. Instead of becoming an actor, Navya is an entrepreneur and also partakes in the family’s agriculture-related business, Escorts Group.

Speaking to Mashable about her involvement in the family business, Navya said, “Farming, as an industry, is one of our largest. A very large percentage of our economy is run by agriculture. So I think it is very important for us to be in that sector so I am quite excited that I am able to work in this sector. A lot is happening and we are trying to do a lot of things, farming is also changing a lot. It’s been almost eighty years since my great-grandfather (Har Prasad Nanda) started this company. I am the fourth generation, actually, of my family to be working in the business.”

Revealing her role in the company, Navya said, “Now it is two years since I am working in the family business. So, the first time I went for the orientation, it was in Chennai. Everyone who joins the company has to go through the orientation, so did I… I had joined at the union level in the marketing team, as a junior marketing manager and I am still at the junior level only. I work in the marketing and communication department. Despite that I have also received training in the shop floor so I spend about three weeks in Chennai, we have a plant there.”

“I have actually built a tractor by myself, I took about three-four days. From start to finish, I built it with my own hands. It is my greatest accomplishment till date. When people ask me for a fun fact about myself, I tell them I have made a tractor,” she added.

While Navya in not interested in becoming an actor, her brother Agastya Nanda is gearing up for the release of his upcoming debut film The Archies.