Actor Neena Gupta recently opened up about a past engagement that ended abruptly over what she describes as a “silly reason,” revealing how she responded when the fiancé tried to come back six months later.
Speaking to Humans of Bombay, Neena reflected on how much her life has been shaped by adapting to circumstances rather than always making conscious choices about marriage or motherhood. She recalled:
“I was engaged to one guy who ditched me at the last minute. I was set to have a kid, had the ring, and had gone to Delhi to buy jewellery and clothes. Suddenly, I got a call from him that he is not going ahead with it.”
The reason? Her fiancé claimed he needed sinus surgery, which Neena considered minor enough to postpone. She added:
“He said he needs to undergo a sinus operation. I said, it’s not a very major issue and can be done later too. I kept asking his parents what had happened, and to this date, I still don’t know why he did it. When he came back after six months or something and said, ‘I wanna marry you,’ I said, f**k off. Now I don’t.”
Neena Gupta’s Personal Life and Relationships
Neena’s life has been marked by several high-profile relationships. She married Amlan Kusum Ghose, an IIT graduate, in college, but the marriage ended within a year. She was also briefly engaged to music composer Shaarangdev Pandit, son of Pandit Jasraj.
In the late 1980s, she had a relationship with cricketer Vivian Richards, with whom she had her daughter, Masaba Gupta, whom she raised as a single mother. In 2008, Neena married businessman Vivek Mehra in a private ceremony in the US.
Career Updates
Neena was last seen in Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri and is set to appear in Vadh 2.