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The debutante actress resumed shooting on Thursday alongside co-star Ishaan Khatter in Bandra
Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; March 9, 2018)

Two days after ushering in her 21st birthday with family, Janhvi Kapoor resumed shooting for her acting debut, the Shashank Khaitan-directed Dhadak, on Thursday morning, with co-star Ishaan Khatter at Bandra’s Carter Road. The schedule was preceded by buzz that the debutante would be taking a break from work in the aftermath of her mother, actress Sridevi’s untimely demise. However, Janhvi surprised the team by agreeing to resume work immediately to keep the film’s release date of July 20.

A source from the sets of the romance drama reveals, “Janhvi and Ishaan will be shooting in Bandra for the next couple of days where they will film some romantic scenes. In the coming week, the duo will head to Kolkata to begin work on the story post interval, when the lovers elope. They have completed the shoot of the first half which kicked off last December and was shot across Rajasthan and on a set in Mumbai where parts of the state were recreated.”

Director Khaitan, when contacted, confirmed the news, saying, “Yes, we have resumed the shoot, rumours of the team taking a break are untrue. We have started off in Mumbai and are looking forward to the Kolkata schedule.”

Dhadak is the official Hindi remake of the 2016 Marathi runaway hit, Sairat, that had featured Akash Thosar and Rinku Rajguru as the leads and was directed by Nagraj Manjule. Janhvi’s parents, Sridevi and filmmaker Boney Kapoor, had flown down to the location in Udaipur for her first day of shoot last December. Sridevi herself was scheduled to kick off Karan Johar’s next in April.