Highlights
Neena Gupta born in Delhi on 4th June 2024, is a versatile actress working in the Indian Hindi film industry. She is married to Vivek Mehra. She is best known for appearing in films like Mandi, Trikaal, Jaane Bhi Do Yaara, and Utsav.
Neena has been doing some direction too in movies and has ventured into the Malayalam Film Industry too. She has been mainly a character artist and have won 2 national awards, a Filmfare award, and 2 Filmfare OTT awards.
In order to wish her a happy birthday, we list the actress’s best 5 films.
Mandi (1983):
Rukmini Bai (Shabana Azmi) runs a brothel that is visited by prominent men in the town. Issues take place when one of the prostitutes in the brothel has an affair putting everyone at risk.
The film stars Naserruddin Shah as Tungrus, Smita Patil as Zeenat, Ratna Pathak Shah as Malti, and Anita Kanwar as Parveena. Directed by Shyam Benegal the film is a must watch for classic movie enthusiasts.
Utsav (1983):
The film revolves around a woman courtesan named Vasantsena (Rekha). She is attracted to the King’s Brother in Law Saasthanak (Sashi Kapoor) but she refuses his love and advances towards her.
The movie is directed by Girish Karnad and stars Amjad Khan as the king Vatsyayan, Shekhar Suman as Charudatta, and Neena Gupta in supportive roles.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983):
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb17cYmSH4
Directed by Kundan Shah, this film shows two photographers employed by a newspaper editor to expose the scandals of the rich. Things get hayware when the photographers accidentally capture an actual murder taking place.
Starring Neena Gupta, Naserrudddin Shah, Satish Shah, Ravi Baswani, Satish Kaushik, Vidhu Binod Chopra and Pankaj Kapoor, this comedy drama is one of the best watches of all time.
Badhaai Ho (2018):
Trailer: https://youtu.be/unAljCZMQYw?si=LImEDTNhlIHQm2Ia
The hilarious comedy film directed by Amit Sharma stars Ayushman khurana as 25 year old Nakul who is horrified to know that his mother (Neena Gupta) is pregnant. This revelation of his mother getting pregnant gives him a shocker that he can’t digest and this leads to creation of issues with his girlfriend Renee (Sanya Malhotra).
Saath Saath (1982):
Directed by Raman Kumar, the film stars Farooq Sheikh, Satish Shah, Neena Gupta, and Deepti Naval in main characters. The plot starts as Gita, a girl from a wealthy family falls in love with Avinash (Farooq Sheikh) who has stern principles in life. After marriage, Gita (Deepti Naval) has concerns when Avinash’s behaviour changes.
