Sach Kahun Toh: An Autobiography by Neena GuptaMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hooter: An authentic and honest take on her own life journey
Neena Gupta's life has been condensed to the Vivian Richards and Masaba Gupta in popular media and her autobiography spares a couple of pages to that episode and focuses on all the other aspects that make Neena the respected role model that she is for so many Indians. She starts off really well as the Delhi girl , bhenji stereotype to as she moves on to Mumbai after her NSD stint.
Then it does get repetitive and she does highlight the same about her naivety as she is taken advantage of or left gullible in love, career and life. She talks about the struggles, the casting couch and her brush with film festivals in bite sized chapters with a very simple writing style.
The editing could have been way more crisper removing some of the repetitive material littered through the book and the end chapters fall into a timeline of shows and movies she has done - a slightly extended filmography.
It is an easy read with an authentic and honest take that Neena Gupta takes for herself focusing on the challenges any middle class individual would go through in a typical Indian city irrespective of career or industry.
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