Mumbai: Janhvi is not an uncommon name. But the way Sridevi’s elder daughter spells her name is, indeed, unusual.
It’s not Jahnvi or Janhavi – but Janhvi Kapoor.
No wonder many have got her name wrong. And that includes her late mother.
Janhvi recalled during a recent appearance on Social Media Star how her name has been tough to crack, with even her mother faltering.
“When I was in school, I had just started learning how to spell. I genuinely didn’t know the spelling of my name. Mom (late Sridevi) was showering in her bathroom and I yelled out to her, ‘Mumma, how do you spell my name?’ She said J-A-N-H-A-V-I. And for some reason, I never questioned it… for eight years,” said the daughter of Sridevi and Boney Kapoor.
“We were going somewhere, I think to London, and I finally opened my passport and I was like, my whole life has been a lie. My friends still make fun of me. Every time I tell them something, they say, ‘You need to shut up because you didn’t know how to spell your name until you were 12’,” she added.
Janhvi, whose last release was Roohi, will next be seen in Good Luck Jerry and Takht.
