Overview
- Speaking with Barkha Dutt, Gupta said her hospital birth certificate was taken and splashed on a front page to label her an 'illegitimate child.'
- She identified the late Pritish Nandy as responsible, said she keeps questioning why it was done, and described the act as brutal and unacceptable.
- Gupta said she began to grasp what had happened around age nine or ten and emphasized how painful it was for her mother, actor Neena Gupta.
- Her remarks came during a wider conversation about anxiety, postpartum struggles, and the pressures of motherhood.
- Coverage notes Neena Gupta has previously made the same allegation and that Nandy died on January 8, 2025; background includes Neena’s past relationship with cricketer Vivian Richards and raising Masaba as a single mother.