{"id":388381,"date":"2026-01-24T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388381\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:53:12","slug":"janhvi-kapoor-reacts-to-filmmakers-video-about-preaching-artistic-freedom-yet-shaming-spiritual-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388381\/","title":{"rendered":"Janhvi Kapoor reacts to filmmaker&#8217;s video about \u2018preaching\u2019 artistic freedom yet \u2018shaming\u2019 spiritual people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">Actor <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/janhvi-kapoor\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Janhvi Kapoor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Janhvi Kapoor <\/a>reacted to a video by writer and documentary filmmaker Natashja Rathore in which she proclaims that \u2018liberals\u2019 preach artistic freedom and yet \u2018shame\u2019 any spiritual leanings. In the video, the filmmaker proclaims that numerous artists spent a large chunk of their lives as \u2018closet Sanatanis\u2019 and calls out those who have \u2018intimidated\u2019 them.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Janhvi_Kapoor_1769248437859_1769248455111.jpg\" alt=\"Janhvi Kapoor reacted to a video in which a filmmaker stated that there is no path 'more liberal' than Sanatan Dharma.\" title=\"Janhvi Kapoor reacted to a video in which a filmmaker stated that there is no path 'more liberal' than Sanatan Dharma.\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Janhvi Kapoor reacted to a video in which a filmmaker stated that there is no path &#8216;more liberal&#8217; than Sanatan Dharma.Janhvi Kapoor reacts to video on artistic freedom and spirituality<\/p>\n<p>The video by Natashja is captioned, \u201cYou don\u2019t get to preach artistic freedom and shame spiritual seeking in the same breath. That\u2019s not ideology. That\u2019s intimidation.\u201d In the video, she says, \u201cIn our circles, everything gets politicised. Knowledge gets reduced to ideology. Silence gets called ignorance. Devotion gets framed as danger. And the irony is this, that the same people who speak endlessly about freedom of expression, have created one of the most rigid moral gatekeeping systems that I have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Janhvi Kapoor reacted to a video by writer and documentary filmmaker Natashja Rathore in which she proclaims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,57349,146610,146611,146609,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-388381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-janhvi-kapoor","11":"tag-janhvi-kapoor-on-liberalism","12":"tag-janhvi-kapoor-on-spirituality","13":"tag-natashja-rathore","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}