Neena Gupta Talks About Her First Marriage

Neena Gupta continues to garner attention for her unconventional professional and personal decisions. The veteran actor returned to the big screen in 2018 with Ayushmann Khurrana's Badhaai Ho, and ever since, she has consistently given outstanding performances. Gupta recently opened up in an interview about her personal life and the lessons she's learned from her first marriage.

At the age of 20, Neena Gupta got married for the first time. She married the man in secret because her parents didn't want her to get married at such a young age, even though they met him when she was performing in a theatre Delhi.

Neena Gupta On Marriage, Her Secret Marriage And Divorce

Neena Gupta said to ">Humans of Bombay, talking about the same topic, "I was doing a play with this guy, we went to a college to perform, he was from IIT and I went from my college. Then we met, we fell in love and then we got married and it didn't work and all that happened."

Gupta continued by stating that there is no such thing as "love" between a man and a woman and that everything begins with "lust." Gupta also discussed relationships and heartbreaks. She added, "I don't believe that a man and a woman can ever be in love. I believe it begins with lust, and if you get along and become affectionate with one another, it becomes a habit."

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Then Gupta continued speaking about love and affection for her daughter, "The only love I have felt is for Masaba. I don't know, other people might have felt but not me. Everything starts out as lust and it can change any direction, you marry or you don't marry or you go to somebody else. I feel it's only with a child that love I feel, that I can do anything for her."

For the uninitiated, Neena Gupta dated former West Indies cricketer Vivian Richards, with whom she shared a daughter named Masaba. But they never got married. Later, Gupta married Delhi-based CA Vivek Mehra.

The actor's upcoming film, Vadh, also features Sanjay Mishra. Both actors appear intense in the trailer in their respective avatars. Jaspal Singh Sandhu and Rajeev Barnwal co-wrote and directed the movie. It will debut in theatres on December 9, 2022.