EXCLUSIVE: Janhvi Kapoor says, shooting for Mili took a toll on her health – I was on painkillers

Boney Kapoor and Sridevi’s daughter Janhvi Kapoor after an award winning performance in Good Luck Jerry is now seen in Mili. The survival drama is a remake of a hit Malayalam film Helen and produced by Boney Kapoor. In the film, Janhvi plays a girl who gets trapped inside a storage freezer for hours.

In conversation with us the Dhadak star recently gave us a peek into the real world of acting and how physically tasking it can be.

In conversation with Bollywood Bubble host Nayandeep, Janhvi says, “They built a minus 15 degree freezer and for that. I was in a ganji and some pant in the freezer and was told that we need to keep it cold so that your goosebumps show and the fog comes out and you are shivering. Then the rat comes who is the star of the show. They are like no the rat will feel cold so we’ll have to put the AC off. I was like you will do it for the rat but not for me. Then they were like the rat can take only two takes and stay in the freezer for two minutes.”

 

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“It was quite difficult to be inside tbe freezer at minus 15 degree. Honestly it was traumatic because I think
they’d finished shooting in nine days in the original film,  but we took 21 days because the director fell sick twice, I fell sick, so badly that I’ve shot for the film on heavy medication and painkillers.”

 

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” I remember that in the last shoot of the thriller you see me wrapped up in cellophane. Because I was wrapped up so could not pee the whole day as it would mean they will have to cut me out and once again roll me up and it would take an hour to wrap me up again. I had fever and being wrapped up, had to hold my pee. It was quite tough, ” she added.

Directed by Mathukutty Xavier, Mili is the Hindi remake of the filmmaker’s 2019 Malayalam hit Helen. Mili released in theatres on November 4,2022.

Catch the entire conversation with Janhvi Kapoor here:

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