Sara Ali Khan birthday 2025: Ananya Panday reveals how the actress was in school

Sara Ali Khan turns a year older today, and we look back at her school days- not from her perspective, but from that of her fellow schoolmate Ananya Panday, who is now an established actress. While Sara and Ananya are friends now, the latter revealed in an interview on mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist that Sara didn’t even know her name in school.

Ananya recalls interaction with Sara in school

Recalling what Sara was like back then, Ananya Panday said, “Sara in school was very much like she is now outspoken but back then, she was even more outspoken. She was always this myth. I would actually hide from her in school because I used to be terrified. If she was walking down a certain staircase, I would take another one, because she would say anything. She’s moohfat even now, but in school, she was even more so and would really say anything. I used to think, ‘She’s going to say something about me.’”

Sara Ali Khan didn’t even know Ananya Panday’s name

Ananya clarified that although it wouldn’t count as ragging, Sara didn’t even bother to know her name. She explained, “We did a play together in school. She was the main lead, and I was just holding her umbrella or something in the background, and she wouldn’t bother to know my name. She would just say, ‘Aye girl, come here.’ I don’t think it was because my name started with A — she genuinely didn’t know it. Now when I tell her, she says, ‘What rubbish, I treated you so well,’ but she really didn’t know my name in school.”

Sara and Ananya’s friendship now

Ananya also revealed that she and Sara have now become colleagues and friends. “We have actually become friends, because she debuted a year before I did and was very welcoming. She would always say, ‘Let’s go for lunch,’ and she really made an effort to be friends,” Ananya concluded.