Actor Janhvi Kapoor stepped into Bollywood under bittersweet circumstances, with her debut film Dhadak releasing just months after the death of her mother, Sridevi. Janhvi has now admitted that she slipped into depression after the film’s release, feeling that people hate her.
Janhvi Kapoor’s memory of Dhadak was very different from what people remember. She was depressed after Dhadak, thinking she was done and people hated her. Janhvi said, “I got all of my validation in my life from my mom. She went away. So I was like, okay, I'm going to shift that to the audience. And I was expecting some across-the-board acceptance, which I didn't know does not exist.”
Janhvi recalled the time when she felt worthless and undeserving after getting her debut film Dhadak. She mentioned, “During Dhadak and Gunjan Saxena, I have been made to feel that I got everything on a platter, and I got things I don’t deserve, which means that I am technically worthless, and I am getting opportunities because of the work my parents have done.”
Directed by Shashank Khaitan and backed by Karan Johar, Dhadak was a remake of the 2016 Marathi film Sairat, and went on to earned approximately ₹110.11 crore at the box office. Janhvi went on to work on diverse films such as Gunjan Saxena, Ghost Stories, Roohi and Good Lucky Jerry. She was recently seen in the romantic comedy Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, directed by Shashank Khaitan, co-starring Varun Dhawan, Sanya Malhotra and Rohit Saraf.
