Janhvi Kapoor says paparazzi stopped ‘clicking from behind’ after she called them out: ‘They are forced to listen to me’

Janhvi Kapoor opened up about how paparazzi click pictures and videos of female actors from behind and post them with the caption, ‘Guess who is this actor?’

Janhvi Kapoor is busy promoting her upcoming film Ulajh. During promotions, she sat down for a conversation on the latest episode of The Male Feminist for Hauterrfly, where she opened up about paparazzi culture. The actor shared that the paparazzi has stopped clicking her pictures from behind after she asked them not to during the promotions of her previous film Mr and Mrs Mahi. (Also read: Janhvi Kapoor calls situationships a ‘retarded concept’: Mujhe yeh beech ka samaj mein nahi aata)

Janhvi Kapoor talked about dealing with the paparazzi.

What Janhvi said

During the interview, Janhvi talked about paparazzi culture and said: “I think I said something while promoting Mahi, ‘Please galat angle se mat lena,’ and since then they have been like, ‘Nahi, nahi hum peeche se nahi lenge! Are mudo mudo (No, we will not click from behind. Turn around)!’ Even if it is a demonstration, I really appreciate it. They put like, ‘Guess who is this’ from the back shot, and that gets the maximum amount of clickbait. So of course they will pick on that, but I don't think that justifies such decisions. I can say that I don't like how I am being shown in this. I am not comfortable with people seeing this much of me that way. They are forced to listen to me because this is my decision and my choice.”

Janhvi added that she would not say these things a few years back, and added: "Aur maine bola bhi kaise (And how did I say that)… this is also a trope that I feel a lot of women use, that I have used a lot. That I don't want to be putting off in my opinion. I want to bahur pyaar se, buddhu ban ke bas bolna chahti hoon (I want to state my point with love and casually) because that is more palatable."

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Janhvi was last seen in the sports drama Mr and Mrs Mahi. Fans will see Janhvi next in Ulajh as Suhana Bhatia, a young diplomat entangled in a web of intrigue and conspiracy. Directed by Sudhanshu Saria, the film also stars Adil Hussain, Meiyang Chang, Gulshan Devaiah, Roshan Mathew, Rajendra Gupta, and Jitendra Joshi. Ulajh releases in theatres on August 2.