Janhvi Kapoor on how films with female protagonists are treated as an ‘anomaly’: ‘People ask me hero kaun hai?’

“Like, ‘Oh you are doing a female oriented film.’ If Mili was Milan, would you ask the actor you are doing a male oriented film, how do you feel about it? That’s weird and sad,” she added.

Janhvi Kapoor says it is empowering to witness the audience embrace good storytelling even if there are people who will still ask her who the male star in the film is. “At the end of the day, we are just telling stories about characters, irrespective of the genre. I hope that attitude changes. So many times, when I am doing this film, I am asked, ‘Oh hero kaun hai?’ and I answer: Me.

“It is extremely empowering that so many people and the audience right now are gravitating towards just stories. You make a good film, and the film is the hero, not the man or the woman in it,” she added.

Mili is the Hindi remake of Malayalam film Helen. The Mathukutty Xavier directorial also stars Manoj Pahwa and Sunny Kaushal. It is scheduled to release in theatres on November 4.

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