Janhvi Kapoor questions social media's shock over her Ambedkar-Gandhi joke

Janhvi Kapoor wants to know why a part of social media was so astonished when she made a joke about Ambedkar and Gandhi a few months ago. Janhvi was speaking with Mashable in a new interview ahead of the premiere of her film Ulajh when she revealed that her PR staff wanted to cut that part of the discussion. She was concerned that the attention would be diverted from the picture she was promoting at the time, Mr & Mrs Mahi.

When the host reminded her of how the internet collectively gasped at her comment on Ambedkar and Gandhi, Janhvi responded, “Is it so hard to believe that a young female actress can have an opinion? I was so shocked. The irony, I remember, is that one of the reactions that, ‘Ye toh PR trained hein.’ Till a day before the interview came out… I had said in the conversation, and after that interview got over I looked at my PR team and I was like, ‘Kuch galat toh nahi bola maine?’ They said, ‘Woh shayad ek cheez pick up ho sakta he lekin hum dekhte he!’

She further said, “The next day I started panicking because the film was just about to release pata nahi kaun se angle se kaun kya bolne lagenge (I don't know which angle will be picked up) I don't know if that's the right thing. Then my PR team started getting hyper and they also started making calls saying, 'Hum wo hisse ko kaat sakte he please (can we cut that out)?' They said no… That's what was so ironic ki meri team toh wo hisse ko kaatne ki koshis kar rahi thi aur log samajh rahe hein ki mujhe training de kar bheja gaya he (My team was trying to edit it out and people thought I was trained to say that)!”

Janhvi stated that she became interested in the subject when filmmaker Neeraj Ghaywan spoke with her about his past and the baggage he had to cope with. It all started with an interview for The Lallantop in May, when Janhvi was promoting Mr & Mrs Mahi and stated that she would like to see a discussion between Mahatma Gandhi and BR Ambedkar.

On the work front, Janhvi will be seen in Ulajh as Suhana Bhatia, a young diplomat caught up in a web of intrigue and conspiracy. The film is directed by Sudhanshu Saria and stars Adil Hussain, Meiyang Chang, Gulshan Devaiah, Rajendra Gupta, and Jitendra Joshi. Ulajh hits cinemas on August 2.

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