India, April 2 -- Actor Janhvi Kapoor has spoken up about the perils of alcohol addiction at a recent event where she lent her support to an initiative designed to shift the public conversation around alcohol addiction from silence and judgment to clinical understanding, self-awareness, and access to care.

Speaking at the launch of Off The Rocks, Janhvi said she has observed that as alcohol has become more and more normalised in social life, very little awareness exists around the point at which social drinking becomes a clinical concern. The actor said, "The conversation around alcohol is either completely absent or deeply judgmental - and neither serves the people who actually need support. Alcohol addiction is real, it's clinical, and...