Overview

• Gupta confessed she has never experienced the sweeping, idealized love depicted in movies or books and questioned whether such romance exists in real life.
• She argued that dating apps are “synthetic” and have made young people commitment-phobic by turning relationships into disposable connections.
• Recalling her youth, the actor described her first love with an IIT student and how a planned movie date was derailed when her classmates informed her parents.
• Gupta revisited her brief first marriage to Amlan Kusum Ghose and her later high-profile relationship with cricketer Vivian Richards, with whom she shares daughter Masaba Gupta.
• She reflected on marrying chartered accountant Vivek Mehra in a private 2008 US ceremony and said she advises her daughter to guard personal emotions and stay present.