These days, Bollywood stars and their even more famous children are in discussion in the tabloids of Bollywood. Sometimes Suhana Khan and sometimes Khushi Kapoor. Now a new name has been added to this list and that is Shanaya Kapoor – the fair daughter of Bollywood star Sanjay Kapoor. These days she is busy preparing for her debut film because Shanaya will soon debut in Bollywood. 

Shanaya Kapoor: 6 Interesting Things To Know About Jhanvi Kapoor’s Cousin!

1. She started as an assistant director: 

Shanaya Kapoor (as the daughter of film actor Sanjay Kapoor) started her career as an assistant director in the film Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl. While Shanaya was the assistant director in Kargil Girl, her cousin Jhanvi Kapoor was playing the lead role.

The Indian Hindi biopic features Shanaya Kapoor‘s cousin Janhvi Kapoor in the lead role of Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena, the first female Indian air force pilot to fight Srividya Rajan. The story was set in the Kargil district and was filmed in India and Lucknow. The war and biographical film of the Indian production is inspired by the Indian pilot Gunjan Saxena who participated in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1999.

2. She will play the leading female role in Bedhadak:

Shanaya Kapoor, daughter of actors Sanjay Kapoor and Maheep Kapoor, will be seen playing the role of Nimrit in the film Bedhadak. The film is directed by Shashank Khaitan and the film is written by him. The film will finally hit all theaters in the year 2023. The release date of the film has been fixed for this year. 

Prior to this, Shanaya did a cameo in the Netflix film ‘The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives’ and also Shanaya has worked in Le Bal in Paris in 2019. 

Bollywood star actor Sanjay Kapoor had said in the interview that Shanaya can do acting and dance classes and everything. He also said that his daughter Shanaya Kapoor is a girl with a multi-talented personality.

3. Shanaya Kapoor turns 25 years old in 2022:

Shanaya Kapoor was born on 3 November 1999 to the famous Kapoor family in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Shanaya Kapoor was born to her father  Sanjay Kapoor (the Indian film actor). Her mother’s name is Maheep Kapoor, and Shanaya also has a younger brother named Jahaan Kapoor.

Her cousins ​​are Arjun Kapoor, Rhea Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anshula Kapoor, and Harshvardhan Kapoor. Shanaya Kapoor’s uncles Anil Kapoor and Boney Kapoor are well-known actors in Bollywood films. He is a very big name, and he is an Indian film producer.

Shanaya Kapoor did her schooling at Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai. After this she went abroad for her graduation. 

4. She has 2 million followers on social media:

Shanaya Kapoor, daughter of actor Sanjay Kapoor, hasn’t made her Bollywood debut yet, but has managed to stay in the media limelight very well. Shanaya is very active on social media and is seen sharing her stylish posts with fans every day. 

On Instagram, she has 2 million followers and she herself follows 800 people.

5. She uploaded a sweet remembrance of her grandma:

Fans have given a great response to a series of photos uploaded by Sanjay Kapoor’s daughter Shanaya Kapoor on Instagram. The pictures of Shanaya Kapoor are a total of seven pictures. In the post she is sitting in a cafe. But, the place where she is holds greenery all around. Shanaya has clicked the pictures standing near the papaya tree. In the picture, she is seen enjoying a take away coffee and Shanaya wrote a beautiful caption saying,  ‘Shanaya Papaya. This is what my grandmother (or Nani in Hindi) calls me.’ 

Apart from this, Shahrukh Khan’s daughter Suhana Khan has also written a cute comment for Shanaya saying: ‘Qtipai’. Whereas Shanaya’s mother Maheep Kapoor has written, ‘My Shanaya Papaya’. At the same time, a user has written, ‘I am a computer, which papaya should I see?’ Another user wrote, ‘Smart girl.’

6. Love life is still a mystery: 

It is reported that she is dating a businessman from Mumbai with a connection from Los Angeles. She is dating an old friend of hers whom she has known for a long time but there is a rumor that they have been seen together at parties many times. There are also rumors that she is in a relationship with Rohan Kurup.

All in all, we conclude that Shanaya Kapoor is a sweet girl who loves family, after all, she belongs to the famous Bollywood Kapoor family with extended limbs and branches that extend to many famous cousins like Jhanvi and Arjun. There doesn’t seem to be any antipathy against one another’s success as we saw that Shanaya got to work as the AD (assistant director) in her sister Jhanvi’s movie where she plays a prominent pilot. Her father has blessed her with wonderful looks and the 25-year-old seems to be blissful and cavalier at the moment with hints of family remembrances like when she captioned that her grandmother would call her “Shanaya Papaya”.