A day before 's birthday on October 30, her mother Bhavana Pandey took a stroll down memory lane and shared a cute video of the 'Call Me Bae' star from her childhood days. In the video, the little Ananya could be seen kissing her mom and getting super excited about her "birthday party". 'Birthday Eve [?] @ananyapanday !!!loads of love and some forced kisses ," Bhavana captioned the post, leaving netizens in awe.

In no time, fans of Ananya chimed in the comment section and showered love on her. "How cute," a social media user commented. "Cutie," another fan wrote.

Recently, in an interview to ANI, Bhavana expressed gratitude to the audience for appreciating Ananya's hard work as she delivered back-to-back successful projects. While opening up about her daughter's newfound success, feels that Ananya's rise from being seen as a nepo kid to an actor who is capable of giving life to a character comes down to the mantra that exists within them. " (I am) very grateful.

I know she's worked hard and everyone does. She's worked hard. But the idea is to put your head down and work hard and take the important, necessary criticism in your stride and work even harder.

And the rest is noise," she said..