Actor Janhvi Kapoor talked about her late mother, actor Sridevi at the recently conducted AajTak Agenda. During the interview, Jahnvi revealed that she prevented her mom from coming to the set of her debut film, ‘Dhadak’. She admitted that it was ‘very silly’ of her to not take some help from ‘the best actor to come out of India’.
The actor said in Hindi, "When I was doing my first film (Dhadak), I was so conscious that I wanted to stay aloof from my mother because people were saying that I got my first film because I am Sridevi's daughter. I went on a different trip and thought I wouldn’t take any help from her. If she acted a certain way, I would do the complete opposite. I used to tell her to not come on the sets, to not help me. I used to feel as if I had an unfair advantage, a trump card thinking ‘How many people have access to Sridevi Kapoor, who is the best actor to come out of India?’ I used to feel that it’s already an unfair advantage, it will be more unfair if I take her advice."
Lamenting her reckless decisions, Jahnvi bemoaned, "I took people very seriously, and I regret now knowing the fact that she was dying to be on the set with me, to help me as a mother. And I didn’t let her. So, I think it’s one of the biggest regrets because sometimes I feel like if I just said ‘Mumma, I have a shoot, please come quickly.' Maybe she would have been there. I think I have come around to that. I am now very proud of being my parents’ daughter. If people want to do a moral debate on whether Janhvi Kapoor being Sridevi’s daughter is right or wrong, you can’t, because that’s the truth."
Jahnvi Kapoor will next be seen in ‘Devara: Part 1’ and ‘Mr. & Mrs. Mahi’
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