Bollywood’s star kids grow up in the lap of luxury and their birthday parties are no different. Unlike a regular birthday party, where kids are given a return gift, star kids’ birthday parties have a gift store and the kids can choose whatever they want. In a recent chat on Bharti TV, Bharti Singh, Maniesh Paul and Harssh Limbachiyaa spoke about star kids’ birthday parties and revealed that these have a “Hamleys type store” and kids, and sometimes their parents too, fill up loads and loads of bags with return gifts.
Maniesh shared on the podcast, “I went to a superstar’s kid’s birthday party and my son was with me. He is good boy otherwise, but here, he couldn’t take his eyes off the return gift stall. All the kids just ran towards that stall and they were all making so much chaos. Even the parents were like, ‘I want this, give me that’.”
Correctly anticipating that their audience might not know about this concept of setting up a return gift store, Harrsh explained, “When rich people throw birthday parties for their kids, they don’t just give one designated return gift. They put up a store at the party, like a Hamleys type store. That store has school bags, cycles, everything and you can take whatever you want.” Maniesh recalled that he once saw a father carrying five bags full of toys while the kid was just sitting on the side enjoying his candy.
Bharti also spoke about a similar experience at Salman Khan’s sister Arpita Khan’s kid’s birthday party. She shared that while her son was too young to get something by himself, Bharti was just too excited to get things from the return gift store. She was feeling a bit embarrassed to get the toys so she asked her son’s nanny to pick up a few things. When the nanny went in, she loudly asked Bharti about the selection of toys and since Bharti was standing next to many celebrities, she was even more embarrassed by these questions.
She shared, “I went for Salman’s sister Arpita’s kid’s birthday. They had an entire store there. My kid was little then so I was feeling like grabbing toys there (laughs). That’s not what I did though. I asked the nanny, Rupa didi, to go and get something.” When Rupa started asking Bharti about which teddy bear to get, Bharti thought, “I was like ‘why are you asking me?’ (laughs) All the star kids and their famous parents were standing there and I was fishing for a teddy bear there. But it was just so much fun.”
