EXCLUSIVE: Neena Gupta REVEALS what led her to write the social media post asking for work: I got very angry

Neena Gupta is truly an exceptional actor we have in Bollywood. She has worked in some critically-acclaimed projects. Today, she is one of the successful actors. In Bollywood Bubble’s Memory Lane episode, the National award-winner actress revisited the time when she had asked for work on social media. For the unversed, in July 2017, Neena shared a portrait of herself on Instagram and asked for work.

Sharing the portrait, she wrote, “I live in Mumbai and working am a good actor looking for good parts to play.” Her daughter, Masaba Gupta reposted her picture and penned a lengthy note.

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When asked about the infamous post, the Badhaai Ho actress said, “Himmat ka kaam nahi tha. Ye aisa hua ki shaadi ke baad media ne mere bare mai ye pheila diya ki mai aab Delhi mai rehti hoon aur mereko kaam nahi karna. Maine chod diya kaam. Iss waje se mujhe kaam nahi aa raha tha. Finally, ek din mai kisise milne ja rahi thi. Toh unki assistant mujhe mili. Toh usne pucha, ‘when did you come?’. (It didn’t need courage. It was after my marriage media spread the news that I live in Delhi and don’t want to work. For that reason, I didn’t get work. Finally, I went to meet someone and then I met the assistant of that person who asked me, ‘when did you come’) I was living in Mumbai. I never left Mumbai. I got very angry, came home aur maine woh likh diya aur post kar diya (and wrote that and posted it).

She added, “Mujhe delete karna tha par aata nahi tha. Phir maine kaha Masaba toh meri band bajayegi. Masaba ne kya emotional uspe likha aur log mujhe milte the aankh bharke. ‘Maam you are so brave, you said this’. Aisa kuch tha nahi. Maine aise keh diya tha. Brave bhi ho sakta hai in a way (I wanted to delete the post but didn’t know. I thought Masaba will screw me. But she wrote an emotional post and people met me with teary eyes. I said it casually. It was nothing like that. It might be a brave act in a way)”

“The reason was that I was not getting work because of media talking rubbish about me,” Neena said further.

Watch the full interview of Neena Gupta here.

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