‘I wanna thank Sara for giving me Shashank and Ishaan’

‘I wanna thank Sara for giving me Shashank and Ishaan’

Janhvi Kapoor is one of the most followed Bollywood actors on social media. The paparazzi too keep following her while she is on her way to the gym or at some restaurant. The actress on #NoFilterNeha said that it’s weird getting papped 24*7. “I don’t know, Neha, you know because I was just thinking about it today while I had egg on my hair and honey on my face at Namrata’s pilates studios. I was like if they’ve seen me enter the gym today, they are going to see me leave with wet hair, they are going to photograph me entering your studio, your show and they are going to photograph me leaving, they are going to photograph me at Dr Agarwals. So, it’s kind of weird but I think the weirdest part of it is that I have kind of gotta used to it now. As much as people might crib about it, at the end of the day, you are getting attention,” she said to host Neha Dhupia. 

She added that there has been a long phase when she has struggled by it because she felt like it was taking away her credibility. “It was like a weird deviation and just an interference and people commenting and me reading that and I was getting too caught up. But, then I think the past 7-8 months, touch wood, the work has been so back-to-back, I have realised that it doesn’t matter. Like, if people are going to cry about me wearing shorts to the gym, I don’t care anymore,” she said, adding, “Because if I wear pants, I slip on the reformer, so I am going to wear shorts. I mean, yes there are days when I still get bothered by the comments, but I have actually reached a place where I am amused by some of the not-so-cute ones.”

There were reports about her brother Arjun Kapoor not wanting anyone to buzz around her. Janhvi said that he wouldn’t have said this. “I think he noticed that someone was just around me a lot. Ishaan was around me a lot and I was around Ishaan a lot but we were promoting Dhadak, we had no one else to be around. I think he was with me through a phase in life that I think no one else could understand except him, with the movie coming out and I think he was just there a lot. So we were just buzzing around each other, I guess,” she said. 

She added that Arjun is protective  but at the same time very liberal and chilled out. “Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to spend as much time with him as like say Anshula didi because he’s always been working. And when he’s here, I’m gone but I don’t know how or why, but I feel that I don’t know how to explain it. But, I know he is there for me and he is looking over and out for me,” she said. 

While many consider Janhvi and Sara Ali Khan to be competitors since they started their careers around the same year, the actress thanks Sara for saying no to Dhadak. “I wanna thank her for giving me Shashank and Ishaan and this experience, honestly. I think what I value most is that they have been my family. As for Sara, things have panned out amazingly well for her with the decisions she made and it panned out amazingly well for me with the decisions she and I have made,” Janhvi said.

But does she really take Sara as competition? “No, I think there’s healthy competition everywhere and it just so happens that we’re in the same age group that we started off at the same time. But I get motivated when I see her. There’s so much to learn from her, Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria. And I think all of us are so different from one another that we have an individuality and I think that we will all make our place in this industry in a way we want to,” she said before concluding.

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