Research Catalog

Title

Sach kahun toh : an autobiography / Neena Gupta.

Author

Gupta, Neena

Publication

• London : Ebury Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

ix, 295 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

In Sach Kahun Toh, actress Neena Gupta chronicles her extraordinary personal and professional journey, from her childhood days in Delhi's Karol Bagh, through her time at the National School of Drama, to moving to Bombay in the 1980s and dealing with the struggle to find work. It details the big milestones in her life, her unconventional pregnancy and single parenthood, and a successful second inning in Bollywood. A candid, self-deprecating portrait of the person behind the persona, it talks about her life's many choices, battling stereotypes, then and now, and how she may not be as unconventional as people think her to be.

Subject

• Gupta, Neena
• 1960-2000
• Motion picture actors and actresses > India > Biography
• Motion picture actors and actresses
• India

Genre/Form

• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1 Delhi Girl -- Rishtey Hi Rishtey, Mil Toh Lein p. 3 -- Bhenji p. 13 -- Ladki Bigad Gayi p. 30 -- National School of Drama p. 40 -- New Beginnings p. 64 -- Part 2 Bombay Girl -- Homeless p. 75 -- Lallu Ladki p. 88 -- Home, At Last p. 104 -- Khandaan p. 123 -- The Casting Couch p. 128 -- The Sound of Music p. 134 -- How I Met Vivian p. 141 -- Part 3 The Princess Arrives -- Soulmate p. 155 -- Lonely, but Not Alone p. 170 -- Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai? p. 175 -- Bazaar Sitaram p. 185 -- Inaam but No Kaam p. 189 -- Part 4 Mad Times -- Aap Jaa Sakte Hain, Namaste p. 205 -- If I Could Turn Back Time ... p. 212 -- Bloody Mary p. 217 -- '... Am a Good Actor Looking for Good Parts to Play' p. 224 -- Badhaai Ho! p. 229 -- The Last Colour p. 232 -- Part 5 Four Guptas and a Mehra -- Shakuntala Gupta p. 243 -- Roop Narain Gupta p. 251 -- Pankaj Gupta p. 265 -- Masaba Gupta p. 275 -- Vivek Mehra p. 289.

ISBN

• 9780670095278 (hardback)
• 0670095273 (hardback)

LCCN

2021317719

OCLC

• 1289306414
• SCSB-14641517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library