TIL Desk Bollywood/ She is set to make her debut with “Dhadak”, the Hindi adaptation of critically-acclaimed Marathi film “Sairat” that explored the themes of caste divide and honour killing, and Janhvi Kapoor says the movie is a cut above mainstream Bollywood which has mostly “glorified” the conflict.
Janhvi, daughter of late actor Sridevi, says the Shashank Khaitan-directed film, in which she plays a girl belonging to the erstwhile royal family based in Udaipur, is set against the backdrop of class divide. Janhvi, 21, says “Dhadak” is not a typical Bollywood saga that whitewashes the “harsh reality” that is still relevant.
“… I feel up until this point, a lot of films in mainstream Bollywood have glorified that divide. Because it creates a sort of conflict – that ‘I can’t live without the love of my life’. I feel they have glorified that divide a little bit.
“But I think, it should be condemned and with ‘Dhadak’, we have set out to condemn it. That it’s a harsh reality. ‘Dhadak’ is not a Bollywood saga that ends with either the parents agreeing or typical, magnificent ending. It’s an ugly truth,” she told
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