On her birthday, Neena Gupta’s life reads like a script she rewrote herself: a teen marriage, single motherhood under scrutiny, and a comeback at 60 with Badhaai Ho. From Sanskrit scholar to NSD alum, from parallel cinema to streaming hits like Panchayat, she kept breaking rules and ceilings. Her story tracks India’s changing attitudes to women, work, and age.
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