MUMBAI: Fashion designer Masaba Gupta who is the love child of Neena Gupta and West Indies cricketer Vivian Richards, was raised as a single mother by the Bollywood actress.
Masaba gave an interview to one of the leading portals where she shared the kind of projects she would like to come her way.
You used to play a lot of sports and your body type was very much like your dad, so you would play and you would bulk up and get muscles and people would have probably looked down on your body type as well. Did you feel like you don't want to work out just because your body type is becoming more fitter and not ladylike? “I was playing professional tennis. Of course it would play on my mind whether I am doing the right thing for my skin? Will I start looking a certain way? The reason I gave up playing professional tennis was because of my mind. Until today my only sort of endeavour in life is to control and be in charge of my temperament because at that time, I remember I had a lot of physical strength. I was probably stronger than everybody else who was playing in my age group at the time but mentally I would just collapse on a tennis court. I would just completely crash mentally not physically and that was the reason I gave up sport, it just made me so angry.”
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What kind of roles were coming your way when you wanted to act? “I had no roles coming my way and even today whatever is coming my way is like somebody who's battled with acne or you had a troubled childhood or a YouTube sensation or a cool urban girl. I think that in films here, what happens is that everything is about can anyone romance her? I don't get offers for roles where I can be romanced. I have Masaba Masaba, I have my own show. Why would I play the role of some sidekick? I want to be a sidekick. If you think that I can play the role of a sidekick and that sidekick is contributing so much to the script then I will do it! I will do a one-minute part in a very big film or a very small film if I can prove my skills as an actor in that.”
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