Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy recalls the time his daughter asked him to hire private jet to make up with Sudha Murthy

Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy and his wife, Sudha Murthy, were the star guests on the Netflix show 'The Great Indian Kapil Sharma Show', where they couple narrated stories from their lives in a hilarious manner.

In one such instance, Narayana Murthy made a confession of him forgetting their 25th wedding anniversary as he had a speech to deliver in Mumbai. He said, “One morning, Sudha asked me, ‘Is there anything special today?’ I replied, ‘No, nothing,’ and went to the office. As I was getting in the car, she asked again, ‘Think of anything special today?’ I still didn’t realize.”

Narayana Murthy’s daughter calls him to “hire a private plane..”

Later in the day, while heading to Mumbai, Murthy got a call from their daughter, Akshata Murthy, who was studying at Stanford University at the time. Murthy described the conversation.

“She asked, ‘What are you doing?’ I told her I was catching a flight. She immediately said, ‘Cancel it, get the first flight back to Bangalore, and wish your wife a happy anniversary!’”


He then told Akshata about a speech at 3pm but she insisted, “I don’t care if you have a speech at 3 pm. If you need to hire a private plane, hire it, but come back and wish her!”

Sudha Murthy laughed it off, saying, “It was our 25th wedding anniversary so it doesn’t happen every year. So I thought, let me give him a cue but it did not work… For five-ten minutes I felt bad because I’m also human. But my daughter was very upset, she went ‘In America this never happens!’, but I went ‘India main it happens though’, who can remember these things??”

Their daughter is now married to former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.