Janhvi Kapoor, the today’s star is happy and excited about her recent release, Mili. Janhvi has been in conversation with media scribes for the release of her film in the last few weeks. One conversation that caught our eye was the one where Janhvi talked about how her father Boney Kapoor has given her learnings about what true stardom actually means. A report on indianexpress.com talkd about it and we take reference from that story for our write up here.
In an interview with Galatta Plus, Janhvi was asked what she thinks about the claim that ‘everybody is a star in this age of Instagram’ and that ‘people keep moving on’. She said, “I think it’s accurate. But I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all. People keep saying that they want to become stars, but your profession is to be an actor. There was a phase in our cinema where aspirational icons and aspirational cinema really… I remember papa telling me stories about how Rajesh Khanna’s car would drive away and women would take the sand and put it in their maang. I don’t think they would do that for anyone today.”
Janhvi emphasised that this is not a bad thing. She added, “Our job description is to tell stories, to move people with our performances. I think that that can be divorced from our personality… I think the only dent that this might cause in our industry is that the opening that a star guaranteed might not be the same. Which is good, because it might motivate people to get off their a**es to write films that are compelling, as opposed to just saying, ‘Acha, yeh hero hai, film ko itne budget mein bana denge, do gaane daal denge, opening toh mil jayegi‘.”
So true! Very rightly said, Janhvi!