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Cricket coach Vikrant Yeligeti: ‘They wanted her to become a cricketer’
Updated On: 05 June, 2024 07:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
Getting Janhvi ready to ace the sport for Mr & Mrs Mahi, cricket coach Yeligeti on enabling the fit actor to develop athleticism for film
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Kapoor with her coach, Abhishek Nayar
When director Sharan Sharma approached Vikrant Yeligeti and Abhishek Nayar to get Janhvi Kapoor ready to face the ball on the cricket pitch for Mr & Mrs Mahi, he had a simple instruction. “He said, she needed to truly become a cricketer,” says Yeligeti, asserting that “everything that you see on the screen was done by her”. “It’s all authentic, and to make that happen, Abhishek and I, who were the consultants on the project, enabled her to think like a cricketer. Abhishek was sure that she needed to be around cricketers. So, we took her to train with top cricketers so that she could learn how they think, and move, and notice their mannerisms. We told her what a wide shot is, and explained the situations in which a cricketer plays in a certain way. These things would enable her to understand the sport,” he shares, adding that once the ambiance became familiar to the young actor, they began to get her physically ready for the part.
“We went in with the knowledge that she is into weight training, and was practicing general fitness patterns, like people do. The thing that we had to take into consideration was that we needed to make her athletic. Weight lifting involves static movements, and we wanted her to move like a cricketer does. We needed her to run like an athlete, and that’s why we first brought in a conditioning coach who worked on her running technique. For the first few months, day in and day out, we focussed on the drills, and how she moved on the field, and aimed to make her run like a batter does after hitting the ball. We needed to build strength in her hip flexors, and enhance the mobility of her joints to facilitate a full range of motion. This would help her look elegant, and rhythmic while running.”
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