Janhvi Kapoor got emotional talking about her mother, late actress Sridevi, at a recent event. Janhvi revealed how she would feel that she had an ‘unfair advantage’ because she was Sridevi’s daughter. The young actress recalled she would not take advice from her mother and stop her from coming to Dhadak sets.
During an interaction at the Agenda Aaj Tak, Janhvi said that it was “very silly" of her that she would not take advice from Sridevi, who she dubbed as “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."’
Janhvi Kapoor continued, “I feel that was very silly. I am her daughter and can’t run away from it. Maine logon ki bakwaas ko bahut seriously le liya (I took people’s nonsense talks 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."
Sridevi passed away just a few months before the release of Janhvi Kapoor’s debut film Dhadak.
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