Want to Make You Proud: Janhvi Kapoor’s Moving Tribute to Sridevi

Janhvi Kapoor’s note for her mother, Sridevi will break your heart.

It’s the only truth that’s at once redundant and profound - that of mindfully cherishing the ones you call family, while they are around. Legendary Indian cinema actor, Sridevi’s untimely demise has created a gaping void in the film fraternity. But the real loss or ‘gnawing hollowness’ as Janhvi Kapoor, her daughter puts it in her moving eulogy to her mother, is an aching burden that only her near ones will know intimately.

Sridevi passed away on 24 February in Dubai, where she was attending her nephew’s wedding. Janhvi Kapoor, her daughter who is set to make her debut in Bollywood with Dhadak is naturally left with many a regrets and searing ‘what ifs’. For her it’s a loss mired in ironies since Janhvi will celebrate her 21st birthday on March 7.

Sridevi’s ashes will be immersed in Rameswaram on Saturday, 3 March. Janhhvi posted a heartbreaking homage to her mother on Instagram.

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. Let the love and adulation you’ll showered on her continue and please know that the biggest part of my mother was the love she shared with papa. And 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 who’s entire being revolved around her, and her two children who are all that remains of their love. Me and Khushi have lost our mother but papa has lost his “Jaan”. She was so much more than just an actor or a mother or a wife. She was the ultimate and the best in all these roles. It mattered a great deal to her to give love and to get love. For people to be good and gracious and kind. 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. Thank you for the love and support everyone has shown us in the past couple of days. It’s given us hope and strength and we can’t thank you all enough.

A post shared by Janhvi Kapoor (@janhvikapoor) on Mar 2, 2018 at 10:09pm PST

She supported her post with a writeup urging her followers to love their parents and thanking her admirers for the adulation they showered on her mother.

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. Let the love and adulation you’ll showered on her continue and please know that the biggest part of my mother was the love she shared with papa. And 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 who’s entire being revolved around her, and her two children who are all that remains of their love. Me and Khushi have lost our mother but papa has lost his “Jaan”. She was so much more than just an actor or a mother or a wife. She was the ultimate and the best in all these roles. It mattered a great deal to her to give love and to get love. For people to be good and gracious and kind. 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. Thank you for the love and support everyone has shown us in the past couple of days. It’s given us hope and strength and we can’t thank you all enough.

We wish Janhvi Kapoor hope, strength and closure.

Janhvi Kapoor supplemented her post with some throwback images of her family.