Neena Gupta shares adorable picture with ‘beti ki beti’

by IANS |

Mumbai, Oct 14 (IANS) Veteran actress Neena Gupta has shared a picture with her newborn granddaughter and said “meri beti ki beti”.Neena took to her Instagram on Monday, where she is seen holding her designer daughter Masaba Gupta’s newborn lovingly in her arms. The actress is seen smiling as she looks at the baby.

“Meri beti ki beti - Rab rakha,” she wrote as the caption.Masaba and her actor husband Satyadeep Misra welcomed their baby girl on October 11. The couple announced the news on Dussehra. The two got married in 2023.The two had taken to Instagram, where they shared the news about the arrival of their first bundle of joy. They also shared a monochromatic picture of the baby girl’s feet.They wrote, “Our very special little girl arrived on a very special day” as they revealed that their daughter was born on Friday.

The designer was previously married to producer Madhu Mantena. The two chose to go their separate ways in 2019.Earlier, Masaba had shared that her mother Neena Gupta, dissuaded her from taking up the profession of acting early in her daughter’s career. Masaba shared the reason behind the thought process stating that the market forces would put her in a box as an actress as the industry used to function differently back in time.

In a podcast hosted by Queenie Singh, Masaba said, “She didn't allow me to be an actor. Okay. Which is why, so I remember there's Anupam Kher's acting school in Mumbai. They share a wall with SNDT College. And I said, I want to go and study acting because I want to be an actor. And she said, don't even think about it. You know, you have this look which is very artsy, international, and almost not Indian. You'll get put in a box. And the industry at the time was very different”.

Masaba is the daughter of actress Neena and former West Indies cricketer Vivian Richard, The two welcomed their daughter in 1989.Talking about Neena, a National Award-winning actress, is known for her work in “Woh Chokri”, “Uunchai”, “Badhaai Ho”, “Gandhi”. She worked in television with the shows such as "Saans " and"Kamzor Kadii Kaun”. She was last seen on screen in “Kaagaz 2”.