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Sisters Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor appeared as guests on the latest episode of Koffee with Karan, and they spoke candidly about their journey in the film business. Khushi also spoke about her family’s reaction to her debut movie. Khushi Kapoor, younger daughter of Boney Kapoor and Sridevi, made her debut with Zoya Akhtar’s The Archies. The film released last month on Netflix, and earned mixed reviews. During the episode, Karan asked Khushi about how she auditioned for the film.
“I had just come back from New York, and I had no intention of starting out at that point. so when I went and auditioned, I was fully shaking. It was the first office I went to, first audition I had ever given, so I was scared. She (Zoya) made it really easy for me though, she calmed me down. I was freaking out, but I think it went well,” Khushi said.
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Once she landed the coveted part of Betty Cooper in the film, Khushi said she “immediately started howling” and crying. “I knew I wanted to do this for the longest time. In that moment I felt, ‘Okay, now it is happening for me.’ It was with Zoya and was the most ideal situation for me and I got really emotional.”
The debutante revealed that Boney Kapoor got so emotional after watching The Archies that he started to cry. Janhvi added, “He cried for three days!” To which Khushi said, “I would get random messages from him saying, ‘You are just so good beta.’ It was really cute and sweet!”
Janhvi, who made her debut in 2018 with Karan Johar-backed Dhadak, said it was an “obviously” emotional moment for her to see Khushi act on screen and then listed what her younger sister has in common with mother Sridevi.
“My biases aside, she is phenomenal, she is unreal. I have seen her for nine months, slog her a** off every day in every aspect of the film. She is a very quiet person and that is something she has in common with Mumma. But in front of the camera, she explodes. I didn’t know that all of this was cooking inside. I live with her, but I didn’t know that’s what it could convert to on screen. I really do think she is magical.”
Apart from Khushi, The Archies also marked the acting debut of Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter, Suhana, and megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s grandson, Agastya Nanda. Ever since it was first announced, the film was attacked by a section that felt casting star kids in it was encouraging nepotism in the industry. It led to the three debutants being trolled, even before they were seen on screen.
“I do read certain things sometimes, I try not to but you can’t help, you want to see what people are saying about you,” Khushi said when asked about trolling. “The first hate comment I read about myself was when I was 11 or 12 years old. Once you keep seeing it, you understand that it is not coming from anything concrete. It is just people taking out their own insecurities on you.”
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