Kareena Kapoor’s late grandfather Bollywood Raj Kapoor is said to have named her Siddhima in honour of her cousin Riddhima, who’d been born six days before the actor’s birthday even during Ganpati festival.
Despite much criticism, Kareena Kapoor as well as Saif Ali Khan decided not change the name of their baby Taimur. Did you know that Kareena’s grandpa Raj Kapoor called her Siddhima, as well as her father Randhir Kapoor, nicknamed her Bebo?’
Kareena was born upon that Ganpati festival day, September 21, 1980. Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, the daughter of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu, had been born six days earlier, on September 15 that same year. According to several news reports, late Bollywood superstar Raj Kapoor decided to name his two granddaughters Riddhima as well as Siddhima, after Lord Ganpati’s two wives, Riddhi and Siddhi.
Babita chose to alter her daughter’s name from Siddhima to Kareena, while Neetu chose to name her daughter Riddhima. While pregnant with Kareena, Babita apparently read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and decided to name her after the book’s title, with such a small modification in pronunciation and spelling.
Nevertheless, Kareena’s father Randhir Kapoor gave her the moniker Bebo, which is a play on her older sister Karisma Kapoor’s nickname Lolo. “My father and mother wanted us to have entertaining names, so we have Lolo and Bebo, which have no actual meaning. It’s almost rhyming. Lolo means loli, and meethi loli (Sindhi sweet roti) means meethi loli (Sindhi sweet roti) means meethi loli (Sindhi sweet roti) means meethi loli (Sindhi sweet roti) means meethi loli (Sindhi “Kareena mentioned this during an appearance on a chat programme with designer Manish Malhotra.
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