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Earlier this week, during an Instagram video talk with actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, who launched Neena Gupta’s autobiography ‘Sach Kahun Toh’, Neena said she has been inscribing the autobiography for 20 years and would often wonder if people were even interested in reading about her.
Neena Gupta has opened up about her parents’ relationship and how her mother tried suicide after her father married someone else. In her autobiography, Sach Kahun Toh, she also narrated her experience as a child and her father’s absence in the house.
Zoom TV quoted Neena’s autobiography as saying, “My father was brave enough to marry my mother for love. But he was also a dutiful son who couldn’t refuse when his father forced him to marry another woman from his community.”
“This betrayal from my father shattered my mother to the extent that she actually tried (and thankfully failed) to end her life. It took me a while to realize that it wasn’t normal for fathers to leave after dinner every evening. That fathers didn’t come home in the morning for breakfast and a change of clothes before leaving for the office. That fathers didn’t spend the night with some variation of ‘Seema Aunty’ (that’s what we called his other wife; name changed),” the book said.