New Delhi: Award-winning actor Neena Gupta will provide an unlimited account of her personal and professional life in 2021, Penguin Random House India publisher announced on Thursday. The memoir, “Sach Kahun Toh”, will chronicle her life – from her childhood in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, and her time at the National School of Drama, to her move to Bombay in the 1980s, as well as her struggle to find work. .
It will be published under the Penguin ‘Ebury Press’ imprint, she added. A National Award winner with a career spanning more than 35 years, Gupta made her mark in such films as “Trikal”, “Mandi” and “Utsav” in the 1980s. She gained even more fame with the TV shows “Saans and “1998” Siski,” but work eventually slowed down in the 2000s, before bouncing back with hits like Anubhav Sinha’s “Mulk” and Amit Sharma’s “Badhaai Ho” in 2018.
Gupta, 61, said it was her time recently spent in Mukteshwar in Uttarakhand during the coronavirus lockdown, which made her “think about” and “relive” her life’s journey. “Going on long, tortuous walks each day, appreciating the sounds of the birds and basking in the chill of the mountain air, I asked myself, ‘Why should I write a book? What do I have to say that can help and inspire someone?’ “With so many incidents that have made me and also broken me, and I had to free myself by getting them out. When I think about my life, my journey and the things I have had to overcome, I will feel better and lighter,” said the actor.
She added that with her book she wanted to let her readers know that, despite her flaws, her broken relationships and circumstances in her life, “she can get up, get to work and look really good while doing that.” does,” she does. to the publishers, the book promises “a candid, self-deprecating portrait of the person behind the persona”, while talking about “her unconventional pregnancy and single parenthood”, as well as her “successful second innings in Bollywood”.
Gupta and West Indian cricketer Vivian Richards, who had a brief relationship in the 1980s, are parents of famed fashion designer Masaba Gupta. Gupta raised Masaba as a single mother for a long time before marrying Delhi-based chartered accountant Vivek Mehra in 2008. Neena Gupta is a sweetheart and I am a huge fan of her work, humor and response over the years. On social media, she drops truth bombs with perfect balance, whether it’s her take on motherhood, the standards of “unfeminine” behavior, or an unemployed actor looking for roles! The best memoirs are as brutally honest as this one and I’m so happy Penguin will be publishing,” said Gurveen Chadha, senior commissioning editor, Penguin Random House India.
