MASABA GUPTA

RIDING HIGH ON THE SUCCESS OF HER SHOWS, THIS DYNAMIC DESIGNER-ACTOR HAS ADDED ANOTHER FEATHER IN HER CAP THAT OF A BEAUTY ENTREPRENEUR. HELLO! TAKES IN HER MANTRA ON LEADING LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS MUCH LIKE HER FEARLESS MUM, NEENA!

- NAYARE ALI

Always up for a forthright chat and with her finger in multiple pies, there’s never a dull moment when Masaba Gupta is around. A fashion designer-turned-actor-turned-beauty-entrepreneur, Masaba just treated fans to Season 2 of her partreal, part-fiction show, Masaba Masaba, once again delighting viewers with her wit, warmth and hysterical banter with mother Neena Gupta.

This time around, the show tackled sensitive subjects such as depression, premarital pregnancies as well as unhappy relationships, leaving fans of this curly-haired, caramel-skinned young lady even happier.

“It’s been incredible!” she says, excitedly. “We are all in a bit of shock. It’s hard to live up to a season that did so well. I was apprehensive about the response because this show is too close to me. I’m narrating it, shooting for it, designing costumes, putting together a team… So it was hard to say how it’d all culminate towards the end.”

“When you are shooting, it’s difficult to understand what the thread could look like. You never know how a scene could resonate with someone. All the issues pertaining to women that we tackled resonated with everyone! There were so many people stopping me wherever I travelled to give me positive feedback.”

Beyond the series, the new season also enabled the actor to fight her own battles.

“I remember not finding closure when Wendell [Rodricks] sir passed away. I was busy. The world got enveloped in a pandemic. We had business problems. I had my health to deal with… I never got a chance to mourn him. So in the scene where I actually break down, I found closure. My director asked me whether I wanted glycerin or time, but it was all inside me. When the cameras began to roll, so did the tears.”