March 3, 2017
A week after her mother and veteran actress Sridevi's sudden
demise, her elder daughter Jahnvi Kapoor says there's a "gnawing hollowness"
within her. She has penned an emotional note urging people to cherish their
parents.
Jahnvi, who is one of the two daughters Sridevi had with film
producer Boney Kapoor, will turn 21 on March 7 and she is also gearing up for
the release of her maiden Bollywood outing "Dhadak".
After a week of
grappling with the shocking news of her mother's demise due to accidental
drowning in a hotel bathtub in Dubai, Jahnvi has penned her sentiments in a note
posted on her official Instagram page.
It reads: "On my birthday, the
only thing I ask of all of you is that you love your parents. Cherish them and
devote yourself to making them feel that love. They have made you. And I ask
that you remember my mother fondly, pray for her soul to rest in peace."
Jahnvi, who has sibling Khushi, said her parents shared immense love and there
shouldn't be any attempts to "tarnish" that.
"Their love is immortal
because there was nothing like it in the whole world. Nothing as joyful and pure
and no two people as devoted to one another as they were. Please respect that
because it hurts to think anyone would ever try to tarnish it.
"Preserving the sanctity of what they had would mean the world not only to my
mother but also to a man whose entire being revolved around her, and her two
children who are all that remains of their love," she said, adding that Boney
has lost his "jaan".
Of her mother, Jahnvi said: "She didn't understand
frustration or malice or jealousy. So let's be that. Let's be full of only good
and give only love. That would make her happy, to know that even in death, she
gave you all something. The courage and inspiration to fill yourselves with
nothing but love and rid yourselves of bitterness in any way and form. That's
what she stood for. Dignity, strength and innocence."
In an accompanying
image, Jahnvi shared a heartfelt note on her emotions of losing her "best
friend" and "reason for everything".
"Nothing anyone said mattered, no
problem was big enough and no day could ever be dull because I had you... And I
didn't have to rely on anyone or anything because the only person I ever needed
was you," she wrote.
As Jahnvi steps into films with Shashank
Khaitan-directed "Dhadak" -- releasing in July -- she says she is only going to
work towards making her mother "proud".
"Every morning, all that I would
do was (wake up) with the hope that one day you'd be as proud of me as I was of
you. But I promise I'll wake up every day with the same thought. Because you're
here and I can feel you."
She signed off the note with, "I love you, my
everything."
Sridevi went to Dubai to attend a family wedding. She was
accompanied by Boney and Khushi, but Jahnvi could not be there as she had work
commitments.