Jr NTR admitted he underestimated Janhvi Kapoor when she came on board of Devara. The Telugu superstar, in a chat with Sandeep Reddy Vanga, admitted that he thought Janhvi might not know much about tricks and tropes of Telugu cinema when she joined Devara since she was from the Mumbai film industry. However, the actor confessed he was shocked when he saw her perform. Tarak praised Janhvi and called her ‘phenomenal’ in the film.
“I was shocked when I saw her. Ye ladki aayi hai Bombay se, kya pata hoga. (Although her roots are in South India), speaking in Telugu is sometimes (tough). But she was (snaps his finger to gesture he was impressed with her.) There was a scene in which this woman went all out. And Siva was looking at the monitor and he was looking at me (for my reaction). She was fabulous. I was shocked,” Jr NTR told Vanga in the chat.
Janhvi added that she was compared with a tape recorder on the sets of the film owing to how well she would learn her lines. “Randy sir used to call me tape recorder. After action, he would say, ‘Okay tape recorder on’,” she said.
Devara marks her first Telugu film. In the past, Janhvi revealed that she manifested this project. “I really manifested working with Jr NTR so much I think for one year I was like please mujhe mauka mile mujhe mauka mile and finally it’s happening!” she said in a press statement earlier this year.
The recently released Devara trailer revealed Janhvi is paired opposite Jr NTR. She has also appeared in two songs with the superstar — Chuttamalle, which is a romantic number and Daavudi, which is high on dance. In the latter, Janhvi was praised for matching her steps with Tarak.
Devara is set to release on September 27.
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