Janhvi Kapoor: I Hope People Notice my Films, not my Gym Shorts

Janhvi Kapoor made her debut with Shashank Khaitan's Dhadak opposite Ishaan Khattar, and is here in the showbiz to stay! The 22-year-old actress already has four big films in her kitty and is currently super busy prepping for it. With Dostana 2 co-starring Kartik Aaryan, the Gunjan Saxena Biopic, Roohi Afza opposite Rajkummar Rao, and Takht awaiting in the next year, Janhvi has her calendars full of exciting projects.

Talking about her journey from Dhadak to having a year full of movies, Janhvi says:

I feel extremely fortunate that I’ve gotten to know myself more as an actor and as a person over these two years, and it has defined my taste in cinema and altered the way I want to look at the films I want to do.

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Janhvi will be seen sharing screen space with one of the biggest talents of the industry. Reacting to the same, she says,

You know, I’ve actually worked with everyone I had dreamt of working with. In my Dhadak interviews, I said I want to work with Pankaj Tripathi, Rajkummar Rao, Ranveer Singh and I’m working with all of them this year (in Gunjan Saxena, Roohi Afzana and Takht, respectively). So, I feel extremely fortunate. Then, there’s a wish list of directors, too, I hope to work with. Zoya (Akhtar) was one of them and I’ve worked with her in Ghost Stories. Karan (Johar) is one of them and I’m getting to work with him.

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Besides her professional front, her gym looks have been under the public radar as well. However, the actress says she wants people to notice her films and not her gym pants. 

It’s so funny because after Dhadak, there are people that come up to me and say, ‘Oh, we loved your first film’, and then there are those who’re like, ‘Oh My God, I follow your gym looks all the time’. So, it’s like I am known for Dhadak and I’m known for my gym looks, too. It’s weird but I can’t blame them. My films haven’t released yet. I have just been working. And I hope once they do, people will talk about my films, and associate me with them, than my gym shorts.

- Janhvi told Hindustan Times

However, Janhvi says that its ‘extremely flattering’ that the shutterbugs take out time to click her pictures and she concludes by saying, “I hope I keep doing things that will make people feel that I deserve their time and attention.”