Bhagya Lakshmi fame Bebika Dhurve talks about the story behind her distinctive name

Bebika Dhurve is a glamorous Indian actress who has successfully made it to the small screen with her talent and hard work. Apart from this she is also a great model and has made it to Miss India 2020 top 15 stages. Bebika is popular for her stint as Devika Oberoi in the daily soap Bhagyalakshmi; she has a lot of stories behind her success, just as her distinctive name has. 

When asked about the story behind her name, Bebika says, "There is an interesting or not-so-interesting story; it just depends on people's perception of my name. A lot of people haven't heard this name, and wherever I go, I am the only Bebika in the room. So, it's distinctive, it's unique, it's different, but it's all mine." 

Talking about her name, she further says, "We are six daughters together, and my parents were willing to have a son, however, in the quest of having a son, they had six daughters. But they named all their daughters well. They are really pretty, sweet names. By the time they reached five daughters, they were fed up, and they didn't want a girl again, but then I came as the unwanted and unexpected one. They kept calling me baby until I was 4 or 5 years old, and finally, when they wanted to settle on a name, the next-door neighbor's kids took it as they also had a baby girl in their house. My parents got so sick and tired that they just added 'Ka' to my name; this is how I was named."

Bebika opens up about her eagerness to know the meaning of her name, and she tells, "Growing up as a kid, I wanted to know the meaning of my name, and it was the first question that popped up in my head, but when I googled it in 2019, even Google didn’t have a meaning for the name. They didn’t have any article or any meaning to the name."

She continues, "I was willing to know there has to be some meaning to everything on this planet, no matter if it's just the amalgamation of a few words altogether. But during the COVID time, when I kept on googling my name, it did pop up with a meaning. This means that Bebika is a baby goddess or someone beautiful by birth. So that’s how I got meaning for my name, and God bless that person who gave meaning to my name."

Talking about the struggles she had faced because of her name, Bebika she said, "I have always had a distinctively different name, so I was bullied for my name. I was made fun of for my name, and all the kids in the school were so mean to each other. A lot of people were mean to me; they scrambled my name in ugly, funny ways in their manner."

Concluding her talks, she says, "Apart from all this, there was always an advantage to having a unique name because wherever I go, there is only one Bebika; it's all mine. And it will belong to me till the end of time; there is no one like me in this world, not even my name."