When Juhi Chawla Opened Up About Her Daughter Jahnavi`s Love For Cricket

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NOVEMBER 25,2024

While many Bollywood star kids are ruling the cinema and internet, it is Juhi Chawla's daughter Janhavi Mehta who has taken over the social media amid the 2025 Cricket Premier League auctions. For the uninitiated, the actress is the co-owner of the team, Kolkata.

Janhavi, who graduated from Columbia University, represented Kolkata at the Premier League 2025 auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, leaving everyone impressed with her performance. She was accompanied by father Jay Mehta and venky Mysore, the managing director of the team.

While fans were also expecting Shah Rukh Khan and Aryan Khan like last year's auction, they were pleasantly surprised with Janhavi Mehta's professional appearance and humbling smile.

Juhi Chawla shares Janhavi Mehta's love for cricket

After starring in many films together and launching a production house, Dreamz Films Unlimited, Juhi, and SRK have gone on to maintain their friendship on both a personal and professional front.

Now, during the Cricket Premier League auction, fans couldn't help but notice similarities between Janhavi and her mother, Juhi, many even calling her the new internet sensation.

A couple of years ago, the Yes Boss actress shared her daughter's love for cricket in an Instagram post as she penned a rather lengthy and heartwarming note.

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Juhi Chawla started by writing, 'Ever since she was a little girl, Jahnavi didn't just watch IPL she began to watch cricket. Listening intently to the commentators, she began to understand the intricacies of the game. When she was about 12 years old, we were in Bali on a family holiday. At the hotel was a coffee table book, the size of (what used to be) a thick telephone directory remember those? It had the life stories, achievements, records, a sort of almanack, of all the cricketers of the world."

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"In the few days that we spent at the hotel, in between her jumping into the pool and behaving like a mad hatter, she sat at the poolside gazebo and read that book cover to cover! It was so unusual and so intense. Which 12-year-old girl does that? I wondered... As the years have passed, her interest in the game has only increased," she further added.

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The Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak actress continued, 'When cricket is discussed, her face lights up she is happy and enthused. Her knowledge on the topic is, to me, astounding. Jahnavi set a sort of record of being the youngest person to be allowed at the IPL auction table 3 years ago she was just 17."

"Aryan and Jahnavi attended the last auction, and this time Suhana joined them. Of course, she is just like a young intern, training at the KKR camp, but she feels so puffed about it. She is where her heart is, and it shows. As a mother, I feel blessed, happy, and proud of the little girl. She is extremely bright, has a long way to go, and with God's grace, she is on her way," Juhi concluded.

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