Janhvi Kapoor says, 'I'm fascinated with slightly tragic characters'

Actor Janhvi Kapoor instantly agreed to feature in Zoya Akhtar's short in horror anthology "Ghost Stories" for two reasons: to understand how filmmaker creates her characters and because she finds herself drawn to "slightly tragic characters". Zoya's short features "Dhak" star as a home nurse tasked with taking care of an elderly woman, played by veteran actor Surekha Sikri.

Janhvi says project gave her opportunity to understand world Zoya creates, which is quite unlike ors. " way Zoya sees her characters and writes m, y are grounded in reality. y are detailed and never one dimensional, she layers m in a way I don't think many filmmakers have cracked.

"I wanted to be a part of this world and get to kw how se characters are me. It was just curiosity," Janhvi told PTI in an interview. actor says story and character resonated with her on a very "weird level". "I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters," she ds.

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Calling Zoya an incredible storyteller, actor says director, quite meticulously, handed over her a five-p backstory for character before film rolled. "A lot of discovering who my character was, was also about her physicality - fact that she was a nurse, re was a certain body langu. " way she would dress while working and t working dictated a lot of her intentions. She h a specific way of talking."

actor was shooting for "Gunjan Saxena: Kargil Girl" and "Dostana 2" when she landed on sets of "Ghost Stories" and was told, last minute, she h to put up an accent for her character. "Zoya asked if I speak Tamil or Telugu. I said I don't so she asked me to do an accent. I did one, because my DoP in 'Gunjan' is a south Indian. Zoya was like great, lets do it. "Imagine she is a nurse -- an orphan, part of her backstory -- who has grown up around those Kanniga sisters who bring up orphan kids. This happened on spot! Luckily that day I h only one-two dialogues," Janhvi ds.

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actor n relied on her house help, a Kanniga, to pick up specific accent. " way she speaks Hindi was very specific to what Zoya said. All her 'h' are silent, so she says, 'teek hai', 'kaane may kya chahiye.' I me her say some of my dialogues, recorded it and n we just went with it!" "Ghost Stories" would be her follow-up to her 2018 debut "Dhak".

22-year-old actor says she has picked all her projects purely because y offered new opportunities for her to learn. " films I have picked after 'Dhak' have been--what people have told me--slightly unexpected. Everything I have approached has been through lens of 'is this an opportunity to learn?'

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"If it has been, I have jumped at it. To work with Zoya, Surekha mam and Vijay, on this story, seemed like an opportunity of a lifetime for an artiste to grow from." "Ghost Stories" will stream on Netflix from January 1.