Neena Gupta, who received much appreciation for her role in the film Badhaai Ho, jokingly called Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar ‘cheap and mean’ at a chat show. Neena’s daughter Masaba Gupta is a renowned celebrity fashion designer.
However, just like any other Bollywood star kid, Masaba also wanted to be an actress but her mother didn’t support this dream of hers. Neena revealed in an interview that she had also requested SRK and Karan to convince Masaba to let go of her aspirations. Neena had apparently bumped into Shah Rukh and Karan during a flight, where the actress had asked them for this favour, who instead gave her their numbers and asked her to call them.
However, when Neena called them later, neither of them replied. The actress jokingly said, “Yeah so mean, cheap kind of people they are.” Speaking about her choice of not letting Masaba to be an actress, she said, “I told her if you want to be an actor then you go abroad. Because tumhara jistarah ka shakal hai aur body hai, tumhe yahan Indian mileu mein bohut kum role milenge, even if you become a good actor. So, tumko woh heroine nahi milegi. Hema Malini nahi banoge, Alia Bhatt nahi banoge.”
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