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Sep 2020 Rs.50 01 09 2020 Everyone is amazing in Everyone is amazing in their own capacity their own capacity AMITABH AMITABH BACHCHAN BACHCHAN People are mistaking Destiny will give you freedom of speech for your due freedom to abuse AMIT SADH SONAKSHI SINHA Many star kids are nowhere today Destiny will give you Why Talent Always BIPASHA yourBASU due Wins AMIT SADH RADHIKA APTE Many star kids are Bollywood Formula nowhere today Films Do Not Require Talented Actors BIPASHA BASU NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI JANHVI I am much more KAPOORcomfortable going and I actuallyI am enjoy much the entiremore processcomfortable of auditioning going and I actually enjoy the entireJANHVI process of KAPOORauditioning September 2020 | Global Movie Global Movie | September 2020 Editor SEEMA PIMPLEY Co - Editor Faisal Saif Consulting - Editor Lipika Varma International Correspondent Carlyta Mouhini Special Correspondent Aahana Web & Graphic Designer Nasreen Qazi Celeb Columnist & Photo Journalist - Shrisheel Feature News Writers Sandeep Hattangady Akshita Pawar Mohan Ayyer Marketing Team Greta Margreat Tanty Roniec Vats Monish Nawani Photographer Indrajeet Aurangabadkar Advertising Sales + 09322993982 + 022 65241705 Corporate Office Media Mag International 1st Floor, 123 Aram Nagar-1 fishery institute Road, 7 Bunglows, Andheri (west), Mumbai - 400061, India Phone : +91 (22) 65241705, 26375924 Email : [email protected] Website : www.globalmovie.in Printed Published & Owned by Seema Pimpley Printed at Triton Arts 44 -Paras industrial Estate, Near Kachpada telephone Exchange, kanchpada, Malad (W), Mumbai-400064 Seema Pimpley Editor & Publisher COVER STORY COVER anhvi JKapoor Acknowledges Her Privileged Background: Have Been Lucky In Way I’ve Been Treated September 2020 | Global Movie At present, Bollywood is seeing the resurgence of outsiders vs insiders debate and talks about nepotism in the Hindi film industry have been raking up. Weighing in on the matter, actress Janhvi Kapoor, in a recent interview with Barkha Dutt, acknowledged her privileged background anhvi Kapoor has and said she is lucky to have certain opportunities Jacknowledged her come her way. privileged background and said she is lucky “I haven’t had to deal with “ the kind of things that most to have certain women have to deal with. opportunities come her Because I do come from way. a slightly more privileged background and so I have been extremely lucky in the way that I have been treated and the opportunities that I have gotten.” Janhvi was joined by Gunjan Saxena, a former Air Force pilot, whom the actress plays in her upcoming biopic, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl. When asked about the experience of meeting and playing Gunjan in the midst of the ongoing debate about privilege (of a star kid), Janhvi said she finds the story inspiring. Adding more to it she said she has been aware of her privileges since the beginning but she believes that at the end it all trickles down to the hard work you put into it. Janhvi also opened up about casual sexism that she sometimes has to deal with. She recalled that sometimes during narrations, the filmmaker seemingly pays more attention or makes more eye contact with the male actor. “In my head, I was like this is happening maybe he because he has a longer scene. But then I realised that maybe it’s just some sort of subliminal conditioning that is making them do that,” she said. Global Movie | September 2020 anhvi JKapoor Says She Auditioned for Dharma Film But Didn’t Get it anhvi Kapoor says she J doesn’t expect films to just come her way and enjoys the“ entire process of auditioning for a film. In the wake of the ongoing debate of outsiders “Many people don’t even get to that stage. I enjoy vs insiders in Bollywood, actress Janhvi Kapoor that process. At least, if I could not do the entire says she doesn’t expect films to just come her film, I did one scene of a film that I really wanted way and enjoys the entire process of auditioning to be a part of,” she said.This is not the first for a film. Janhvi says she also auditioned for a time that Janhvi acknowledged her privileged film for Karan Johar’s Dharma Production but background. Talking to Barkha Dutt before the she couldn’t get the film. release of Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, she had said, “I haven’t had to deal with the kind of things “I am no one in the scheme of things to sit and that most women have to deal with. Because I do think that movies will come to me now. I am much come from a slightly more privileged background more comfortable going and I actually enjoy and so I have been extremely lucky in the way the entire process of auditioning,”Continuing, that I have been treated and the opportunities she added, “In fact, I auditioned for films within that I have gotten.”Meanwhile, Janhvi made her Dharma also. I actually auditioned for a film in Bollywood debut with Zee Studios and Dharma Dharma only that I didn’t end up getting.” Productions’ Dhadak and was last seen in Netflix feature film Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl. She When asked if it is Karan, who informed her that was also a part of Ghost Stories, an anthology she did not get the part, Janhvi said, “No, the horror film on Netflix. director will tell me and then Karan will also tell me, ‘For this reason…’, ‘You are looking too young’ The actress’ future projects include horror or whatever.” comedy Roohi Afzana opposite Rajkummar Rao and Dostana 2 featuring Kartik Aaryan and Laksh However, Janhvi is happy to be able to get a Lalwani. chance to audition and feels it is a big deal. September 2020 | Global Movie INTERVIEW Many ‘star kids are nowhere today’ The ones that are successful ‘are the ones who deserve it.’ Global Movie | September 2020 After five years, Bipasha Basu I spent a lot of time with him, did not want us to work together returns to the spotlight with her my parents and sisters. That’s on everything that was offered to debut Web series Dangerous, something I hadn’t done for a us. opposite husband Karan Singh long time. Grover. We didn’t want to do any work You started your career early. together unless it was exclusive. The show is produced by Vikram Bhatt, the man who directed her You know, I left home to work We said no to a lot of things. first hit, Raaz. from the time I was 16. Why did you sign Dangerous? Bipasha tells Subhash K Jha, “I I didn’t even realise I had taken really feel blessed for all the love such a long time off from my Dangerous was first offered to I get after 19 years in the film acting job. Karan. Then Vikram Bhatt asked industry. People want to see me me to take a narration. I totally all the time.” But I guess everything happens loved it. at the right time. You have been missing from Director Bhushan Patel and I had the screen for a while. Now Vikram Bhatt’s OTT series worked together before in Alone Dangerous is happening. I am and everything fell into place. Yes, I’ve been missing from the sure there will be many more screen. after this. I didn’t accept Dangerous because my husband was in it After my marriage, I wanted to What prompted you to take or because Vikram Bhatt was take some time off. the plunge again -- your Raaz producer. Director Vikram Bhatt or But I wasn’t quantifying my time, working with your husband It was a decision based entirely so I had no idea how much time I again? on the script. was taking off. After our last film Alone, my Though I must admit eventually I was happy building my husband Karan and I had got a both Karan and Vikram turned relationship with my partner lot of offers together. out to be a big plus. I enjoyed (Karan Singh Grover). working with them again. But I had made a decision that I September 2020 | Global Movie Raaz remains your biggest It’s a constantly evolving situation. star kid or an outsider. hit. Do you regret some of the choices you made after Raaz? I never felt unsafe in this industry. As outsiders, we get less chances to prove ourselves. No, not really. Right from the the time I came in, I conducted myself in a way But once we get the audiences’ Raaz is not my biggest hit. I have where I was always given respect. acceptance, no one has the had many hits. power or authority to take it away I have heard about unfortunate from us. I have been blessed with many incidents in the lives of others, kinds of films. so I really can’t comment in this I have a lot of friends among star issue on the basis of my personal kids. They had to go through I am one of the lucky actresses experience alone. their share of struggle, prove to have done all kinds of films, their talent. from multi-starrers to heroine- How effective has the #MeToo oriented subjects, comedies, movement been in Bollywood? The audience accepts or rejects non-Bollywood Indian films (like Do you think the cleansing them. Rituparno Ghosh’s Bengali film), process was required? art films... every film is special to Many star kids are nowhere today. me. The #MeToo Movement was something that was waiting to The ones that are successful are Films that may look like mistakes happen, not just in Bollywood the ones who deserve it.