Actress Janhvi Kapoor recently spoke candidly about the challenges of being a star kid, dealing with social media scrutiny, and coping with the loss of her mother, Sridevi, just before stepping into Bollywood.
In a conversation with Raj Shamani, the actor also revealed a disturbing experience from her teenage years. She shared that at the age of 15, she came across a morphed image of herself circulating on a p*n site.
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Sharing the dark incident, Janhvi said, “I don't know if it was a deepfake, but it was something like that. I saw a picture of me on a p*rn site. We had IT class in school, and boys used to go on those sites for fun. My pictures were on there. And this was in school. So that was a weird experience.”
She added, “At some point, I was like, this is the cost you have to pay. There is no morality in a lot of these things with social media.”
In Raj Shamani's Podcast Janhvi Kapoor Shared her weirdest experience abou Deepfake
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She said "I Saw a picture of me on P°rn Site she was not on the P°rn site. We had an IT class or something where boys used to click on these site for fun and my pictures were on their"
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Not only deepfakes, Janhvi also expressed her concern over misuse of AI images. She stated, “I am not at peace with it. There are visuals of me out there, even shared by official news pages, which are completely AI. I have never worn those clothes or been photographed like that.”
Janhvi added, “t gets circulated as if it's something I've put out. That creates a certain kind of impression. If tomorrow I tell a director I'm not comfortable wearing something, someone can pull up those pictures and say, ‘But you've done this before.' Even if they don't say it, it makes you think.”
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About dealing with these issues, Janhvi said, “It upsets me, of course. I feel like I don't have that much of a voice to complain. There's this attitude — you've got so much in life, thoda seh lo, don't complain. So I don't think my voice has that credibility yet. There will be backlash, and it might take away from the cause.”
On the work front, Janhvi Kapoor will next be seen in Peddi opposite Ram Charan, which is slated for release on April 30 this year.
