Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; March 2, 2017)

Last year Shraddha Kapoor celebrated her birthday with a family lunch at a suburban restaurant which was a treat from the actress. This year, the Kapoor family hosted a party for her at their Juhu residence on Wednesday before she flew off to Europe to bring in her 30th birthday on March 3, with her friends.

“It was a small intimate affair which Shraddha’s mother Shivangi had been planning for a while. She personally decided the menu and ordered a cake well in advance for her daughter, while dad Shakti was in-charge of the cocktails,” informs a source close to the family, adding that Shraddha’s aunts, Padmini and Tejaswini Kolhapure, uncles Pradeep Sharma and Pankaj Saraswat and cousins Priyank and Vedika were on the guest list.

Brother Siddhanth who was in Abu Dhabi over the weekend for the wedding of Delhi-based filmmaker-entrepreneur Akshay Marwah’s to restaurateur Aashita Relan, flew in early on Wednesday to be a part of the revelry.

Shraddha recently wrapped up the first schedule of Apoorva Lakhia’s Haseena Parkar biopic and was shooting an ad yesterday. “She is really excited about her 10-day break. She will be travelling through a few cities in Europe before returning to the Bay in mid March,” adds the source.