Janhvi Kapoor on stepping outside her comfort zone for Peddi: ‘I think it’s pretty cool’ | Telugu News
4 min readHyderabadJun 11, 2026 08:27 PM IST Janhvi Kapoor memorised her Telugu lines, walked into a scene she was terrified of, and came out the other side with a story she says she will pass on to her children. In a recent interview, Janhvi reflected on Peddi, the director she trusted completely, and what Sridevi taught her without ever meaning to. Trusting the director Buchi Babu Sana made his directorial debut with Uppena in 2021, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu. For Janhvi Kapoor, that track record mattered. When the question of creative control came up during an interaction with Beyond the Brief by District Movies, she was clear about where the final word rests. “The director obviously gets the final word because he is the one that says cut. And especially when it is a director like Buchi Babu Sana, who has a track record of making such amazing rooted work like Uppena,” said Janhvi. In Peddi, set against the backdrop of 1980s rural Andhra Pradesh, the …








