Janhvi Kapoor’s debut film ‘Dhadak’ was released in July 2018. Sridevi had passed away in February of that year.
Actress Janhvi Kapoor has time and again opened up about her mother Sridevi and the pressures of being the daughter of the late legendary actress. Now in a recent interview with Agenda Aaj Tak, the actress talked about the late actor's legacy, and revealed how she felt having an 'unfair advantage' being her daughter.
Revealing how she would not take advice from Sridevi and prevent her from coming to the sets of her debut film ‘Dhadak’, Janhvi admitted that it it 'was very silly' on her part to not utilise her access to Sridevi, who was ‘the best actor to come out of India’.
The actress 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.”'
She further mentioned how she now feels ‘silly’ to have run away from being her daughter, and for taking people very seriously. She said at the event, “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.”
Lastly, she said that she is now proud of being her parents’ daughter because even if people debate on whether her being Sridevi’s daughter is correct or not, they cannot change it, because that is the actual truth.
Janhvi will next be seen in ‘Devara’ and ‘Mr And Mrs Mahi’. She made her acting debut in 2018 with the romantic film ‘Dhadak’. The Shashank Khaitan-directorial, also starring Ishaan Khatter, was the Hindi remake of the 2016 Marathi film ‘Sairat’.
Sridevi died of accidental drowning in Dubai in February 2018.