Gulshan Devaiah opened up about his earlier remarks about Janhvi Kapoor where he had said that he didn’t vibe with the actor while working on the spy-thriller, Ulajh. Janhvi had to face a lot of online trolling after the incident. Gulshan revealed that he had apologised to her and shared what she said to him.
During a conversation with News18, Gulshan explained what he meant with his remark. “People trolled her, but the point I was trying to make was that you don’t have to be friends or vibe with people you are working with because end of the day we are professionals. I can’t expect to vibe with everybody. If I want to work with only people who I vibe with, then that’s also fine. But, that’s not why I am an actor.”
He added that Janhvi’s PR team was “sweating after that”. “Every time we are together, they are all standing behind the camera, they’re pacing up and down thinking, ‘I don’t know what this guy is going to say now.’ It is just my way of having fun with the whole promotion process. If you feel that I am crossing the line somewhere, let me know,” he said.
Janhvi was quite “chill” about it when Gulshan apologised to her. “So, I told her I am sorry and it’s just my sense of humour, so she was chill with it. I think I still have that message or maybe I deleted it. It was voice notes; we used to send each other voice notes. She responded very sweetly in a long voice message and said that I understand. She is a completely different person and keeps to herself,” Gulshan said.
The actor, who was recently seen in Rishab Shetty’s Kantara: Chapter 1, opened up about having to work with people with whom he doesn’t connect. “Sometimes, you have to work with people you don’t vibe with. Sometimes, you have to work with people who are terrible. I have done that. There are some senior people in the business who are very difficult to work with. I have had those experiences,” he said.
Gulshan shared one experience with the late Tom Alter and said that he was rude. “I had a terrible experience of working with Mr. Tom Alter. He is a wonderful man actually, he was so kind. But, he was so difficult to work with because we didn’t know he was going through cancer. It was terrible. We were wondering why he was being so rude and uptight,” said the actor.
He added, “One day, I even went and told him that you are a thespian, we respect you, but please don’t think that we are all these young actors who want to upstage you, I don’t know what you’re thinking. He never shared with anybody that he was battling cancer. I got to know when he died. There are some others also. I wouldn’t like to name them, but they can be difficult to work with.”
