As we sit opposite a hungry Janhvi Kapoor who has flown down from her Good Luck Jerry shoot in Chandigarh, she requests her Man Friday to source parathas. “A month of Chandigarh has spoilt me. I am on a steady diet of parathas and butter,” she laughs, ready to talk about all things Roohi. Her fourth outing after Dhadak (2018), Ghost Stories (2020) and the understated Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020) is far from your run-of-the-mill fare. She volunteers that she has spent a sleepless night feeling jittery about doing a day of press interactions. “I have worn these big glasses to hide my dark circles,” she tells us. Needless to say, returning to on ground promotions is a tad disorienting. “This is feeling new because I haven’t done this since Dhadak (Debut film)…” 

In the horror comedy, also featuring Rajkummar Rao and Varun Sharma, Kapoor takes centrestage as a woman possessed by a ghost.  “I should have worn knee pads while shooting for the sequences as a witch,” she laughs. The physically draining film left her with many physical bruises and scratches. “I shouldn’t wear extensions in heat. After sunset my hair would be filled with bugs and it was a task to physically comb them out. My hair was a horror show in itself.”