Janhvi accepts her privilege as nepotism debate rages on

Janhvi Kapoor is among the younger lot of actors who has faced the wrath of negativity against nepotism and star kids. The actress started receiving hateful comments even before she made her debut in Bollywood. However, she didn’t let it affect her in any way. After Dhadak and Ghost Stories, the actor is now all set to play the first Indian female Air Force pilot in combat Gunjan Saxena in her upcoming film Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, which is scheduled for a digital release on Netflix on 12 August. In a recent interview with senior journalist Barkha Dutt and Gunjan Saxena, Janhvi opened up about her experience of shooting for the film and said, “I haven’t had to deal with the kind of things that most women have to deal with. Because I do come from a slightly more privileged background and so I have been extremely lucky in the way that I have been treated and the opportunities that I have gotten.”

She added, “I don’t think I have anything to complain about, but hearing her story, being in a simulated environment, when knowing that she’s been in probably these real situations, I don’t know if I can say maybe sympathise, but it made me come close to watch it may have been like, and it, of course, broadened my horizon and perspective of what women might be going through.”

When asked if she has ever faced sexism on film sets, Janhvi confessed that she sometimes feels that the filmmaker pays more attention to the male actor. She would earlier brush it off by thinking that maybe the male actor had an important role but now she feels that it is their subliminal conditioning.