When starkids follow footsteps of their parents to make career in acting, they generally stick to mainstream masala movies but actress Janhvi Kapoor doesn’t belong to that category. With her last film ‘Good Luck Jerry’ and upcoming project ‘Mili’, the actress has made it clear that she doesn’t shy away from indie or small scale content driven films. In a recent chat with The Indian Express, Janhvi shared that although she would love to do mainstream movies, right now she is focusing on more emotionally challenging roles.
She said, “I don’t think anyone wants to do frivolous stuff, but I’d love to do more mainstream stuff, if that’s what you mean. I’d love to do that for myself. Right now, with the phase that I’ve had in the last two years, where I had naturally gravitated to emotionally challenging roles, and I guess, also physically taxing as well. And it is just because I wanted to do something different from what everyone else was doing and that’s what peaked my interest.”
Janhvi’s upcoming film ‘Mili’ is remake of a Malayalam flick named ‘Helen’. Talking about the idea of remakes, Janhvi said, “Even if it is a remake, and not an original, you can still tell it with truth and honesty. If the film is being remade with the agenda of it being profitable because it has worked out as a project before then you’ve already lost. But if you’re making it with an intention of making it a new experience for the audiences then you have a chance of winning people over even if it is not an original subject.”
