Janhvi Kapoor on Good Luck Jerry: ‘Want to show people I’m greater than a bholi, bechari’

Actor Janhvi Kapoor says she hopes she is ready to persuade the viewers to look past her ‘bholi’ and ‘bechari’ picture via the upcoming crime comedy Good Luck Jerry. The 25-year-old, who made her debut with the 2018 romantic drama Dhadak, has starred in movies comparable to Roohi, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl and the Netflix anthology Ghost Stories.

Good Luck Jerry is the remake of the 2018 Tamil movie Kolamaavu Kokila, starring Nayanthara and Yogi Babu.

“I noticed the unique movie and thought it was cool and humorous. I’m a giant fan of Nayanthara and Yogi Babu. Nayanthara was simply such a bada** within the movie. I assumed Good Luck Jerry was a really new house for me.

“People have kind of mentally put me in this box of ‘bholi si hai’, ‘shaant’ and ‘bechari’ (innocent, quiet, helpless). Maybe it’s the energy I give out. It’s also probably because of the films I’ve done,” Kapoor instructed PTI.

In Good Luck Jerry, she performs Jaya Kumari alias Jerry, an immigrant from Bihar who turns into a drug seller in Punjab to foot the medical payments for her mom who’s recognized with stage 2 most cancers. “Nayanthara in that film was all of that innocent and simple, but her character had a solid arc. I thought this film was a good opportunity to show people that there’s more to me than that and to have fun with it,” she added.

The movie, directed by Siddharth Sengupta, got here to Kapoor on the time when she was craving to do a comedy film. She has beforehand starred in Roohi, the 2021 horror comedy.

“I wanted to try my hand at comedy. I was so pumped to do it in this film. It’s not like I have witty one-liners in the film, something I really want to do. But Good Luck Jerry is more situational,” she stated. Kapoor stated the movie’s cultural setting additionally introduced a newness to the Hindi model.

The authentic movie, which marked the directorial debut of Nelson of Beast fame, adopted Nayanthara‘s Kokila who will get concerned with the drug trafficking mafia lively within the small cities of Tamil Nadu. “Ours is a very completely different movie by way of the story and even by way of characters. I noticed the unique as soon as, understood the flavour after which tried to seek out Jerry.

“She (the character) is different here, in the sense that she finds herself a little bit more at the end and turns into a less apologetic person. Or at least in my head that was a very conscious thought that I wanted to create,” she added.

Written by Pankaj Matta, Good Luck Jerry is backed by Aanand L Rai’s Colour Yellow Productions and LYCA Productions, in affiliation with Sundial Entertainment. Also starring Deepak Dobriyal, Mita Vashisht, Neeraj Sood, Sushant Singh and Saurabh Sachdeva, the movie will launch on Disney+ Hotstar on July 29.