Break The Internet Esha Gupta!

Sultry on screen, and off it, ballsy and outspoken, Esha Gupta is the stuff our fantasies are made of

- Paloma Sharma

Esha Gupta is super chilled out. Still, you don’t want to get into an argument with her. Though she may not have pursued her legal ambitions, rest assured she’s still got the chops. “I was always good at arguing, even about things I didn’t know too much about,” she laughs. “My dad would often say, ‘Why don’t you try law?’”

The former Miss India did a short stint as a law student, on a scholarship at Newcastle University after winning her title, before the lure of Bollywood brought her back home. Since then, she’s had our attention in films like Prakash Jha’s Chakravyuh and more recently Rustom and Baadshaho.

A quintessential Bollywood outsider, Gupta grew up in “a very modest family, my dad was a Wing Commander in the Air Force,” and remembers the thrill of earning ₹1,000 for her first fashion show. More than a decade later, she has a hush-hush Indo-international project she’s currently working on, plans to “jump out a plane” (just sky-diving, relax) and a penchant for partying in Dubai until 6am – confirming that Esha Gupta carpe diems like nobody’s else. When we caught up with her, she was at her uncensored best.