Janhvi Kapoor, the daughter of the late legendary actress Sridevi, recently opened up about her feelings following her mother’s untimely demise in 2018. In an interview, the young actress revealed that her mother’s death brought her a strange sense of relief which she experienced after her death.
Sridevi, who was one of the most successful actresses in the Indian film industry, passed away in February 2018. The news of her sudden death shocked the entire country and left her family, friends, and fans devastated.
In the interview, Janhvi said, “When I lost mom, of course, there was this huge tragedy, there was a hole in my heart. But there was this horrible feeling of ‘something bad has happened’ to justify all the great things in my life and all the privileges and the things that I got easily which I heard my entire life. I thought ‘Ok now something bad has happened. I deserve this. I deserve this horrible thing that has happened to me. It was a weird sense of relief.’
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Talking about coping with Sridevi’s death, Janhvi said that being in front of the camera is the closest she will ever feel to Sridevi because she often kept telling her to give her best shot in her first film. Janhvi said that the last conversation she had with Sridevi was about her debut film and the month her mother died is a blur to her.
The actor recalled Sridevi calling her “laddo” and revealed how she spent most of the time at work, even if much of the time was blurry following her death. Janhvi added, “I don’t think I remember anything. That entire month was a blur for me and a long time after that was also a blur.” Sridevi passed away in February 2018 in Dubai.
In the years since her mother’s death, Janhvi has continued to build her career as an actress, starring in films such as Dhadak and Gunjan Saxena. Janhvi’s journey through grief and her continued success as an actress serves as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. While the pain of loss never truly goes away, it is possible to find meaning and purpose in life after a tragedy.