Janhvi Kapoor cites internet phenomenon ‘the dress’ as she defends Bawaal again: ‘Heart of the film was in the right place’

To explain her perspective, Janhvi spoke about the 2015 internet phenomenon known as ‘the dress’. Some saw the dress in question as white and gold, and others saw it as black and blue, and the actor said that the same thought can be applied to Bawaal. “I come with the information of the intention and the thought, and everything that we felt when we made it and what we set out to do. So I can only really look at it right now in that way,” she said.

Janhvi defends Bawaal’s intentions

When asked about defending the film, much like how her co-star Varun Dhawan did, Janhvi said that “the heart of the film was in the right place.”

The Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Ambassador of Israel to India, Naor Gilon, accused the film of being insensitive and “trivialisation of the suffering and systematic murder of millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust.” Janhvi said she was “sad” that this is what people got out of the film. “It’s all a matter of perspective. I feel sad that what some people got from the film was that we were trivialising it. That was, in no way, the intention. I would like to understand where that opinion is coming from but I guess there’s nothing I can do as an actor right now to change the course of how people have digested this information,” she said.

Previously, Nitesh Tiwari told Pinkvilla that he was hurt by people who questioned his intentions. “You can question the creative process, you can question the creatives, but please do not question the intent. The moment you start questioning the intent, it becomes hurtful. It puts a question on your credibility, which has taken so many years of hard work to build. That is something that I think should be avoided. I’m all for criticism, but it should be a conversation,” he said.

Bawaal released on Amazon Prime Video.