Devara's Janhvi Kapoor compared to mother Sridevi | Here's why...

Janhvi Kapoor is all set to display her cricket talent in the romantic drama film Mr. & Mrs. Mahi, directed by Sharan Sharma. In a recent interview, when a comparison was drawn between Janhvi’s acting and that of her mother, the late actress Sridevi, Janhvi said she has been told several times on the set of her Telugu film Devara that she acts like her mother.

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Janhvi Kapoor on being compared to her mother, Sridevi

During an interview with ETimes, Janhvi was asked if she had ever been told that she emotes like her mother, Sridevi. The actress said that every time she gave a good shot on the set of her Telugu debut film Devara, which also stars Jr NTR, the crew would tell her that it was exactly like her mother. She knew that she had done a good job whenever she heard that.

Janhvi Kapoor on juggling cricket with portraying complex emotions

Janhvi will next be seen in Mr and Mrs Mahi, in which she is paired with Rajkummar Rao. She plays a cricketer in the film. Speaking about playing cricket while acing complex emotions during the shooting of the film, Janhvi said that the director of the film, Sharan Sharma, is passionate about cricket, so that helped with her performance.

Janhvi added that there was a simpler way to go: she could have learned all of the shots and the matches like choreography and then the makers could have fixed everything with VFX. But that is not what happened.

About the emotional aspect of the film, Janhvi said that because she and Sharan are close, they had a lot of discussions about her character’s personality, which was very close to her own personality during the filming of Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl. Janhvi said, “A lot of the times when we were shooting, he (Sharma) would come up to me and be like, ‘You remember how you were like that moment (during the shoot of Gunjan...), channel that sort of emotion.’”

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In the same interview, when asked if she was trained by Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik for Mr and Mrs Mahi, Janhvi said that Dinesh was at a cricket camp that she attended but that he did not train her.

Helmed by Sharan Sharma, Mr. & Mrs. Mahi, starring Janhvi Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao, will hit be released in theatres on May 31.

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