Neena Gupta's 66th Birthday Bash Was High On Glam
Neena Gupta celebrated her birthday with husband Vivek Mehra, daughter Masaba Gupta, and close friends Soni Razdan, Anu Ranjan.
Who would say Neena Gupta turned 66 this year? Our birthday girl can still outshine the new-gen actors, whether it's with her brilliant performances or effortless sense of style. Be it her professional journey or personal presence, her signature full-face smile has a way of capturing hearts across all age groups — from 8 to 80. In her case, age is truly just a number.
We're not saying this without a reason — this year, the diva celebrated her birthday in full party mode, surrounded by her family and closest friends. And who stole the spotlight? Of course, it was Neena herself, in a head-turning birthday look that radiated charm.
The evergreen actress made a stylish statement at her birthday bash, turning heads with her elegant yet edgy ensemble. Dressed in a sleek satin-black outfit Neena exuded all the charm. She accessorised it with a bold, statement necklace that added a regal flair, and classic watch and a bangles to complete her chic aesthetic. Her pulled-back hair, oversized amber-tinted glasses, and subtle glam makeup proved once again why she remains a timeless fashion icon. From posing like a 10-year-old with a yellow balloon and sling bag to slaying like a diva, she rocked her birthday in style.
Her infectious smile lit up the room as she celebrated the occasion with husband Vivek Mehra, daughter Masaba Gupta, and close friends including Soni Razdan, Anu Ranjan and more. To make her day even more special, Vivek twinned in black with his lady love, and fans couldn't stop admiring their chemistry.
Anu Ranjan also shared a glimpse from the intimate celebration on Instagram, posting a heartwarming group photo from the bash.
On the professional front, Neena Gupta is busy promoting her upcoming film, Metro… In Dino, a musical romantic drama directed by Anurag Basu. Just as we saw her radiating traditional glam in the film's trailer, she carried the same charm to the trailer launch event as well.
For the celebration, she opted for the elegant Rann Kaftan, a piece straight from her daughter Masaba Gupta's ensemble. The pristine white silhouette, featuring flowy sleeves and a deep neckline adorned with gold house charms, was paired with the bold and edgy Biscuit Bra, adding a touch of contemporary confidence to her graceful presence.
To add just the right amount of sparkle, she accessorised the look with 'Pearlwind Earrings' in 18-carat gold from the House of Masaba x Amrapali Jewels collection.
View this post on Instagram
A post shared by House of Masaba (@houseofmasaba)
Talking about Metro… In Dino, the film is all set to release on July 4 this year. Alongside Neena Gupta, the film boasts a star-studded cast including Anupam Kher, Pankaj Tripathi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sara Ali Khan, Ali Fazal, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Saswata Chatterjee.
First Published:
June 05, 2025, 14:44 IST
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Time of India
an hour ago
- Time of India
Justin Herbert's budding romance with Madison Beer sparks distraction debate for Chargers ahead of the NFL season
Justin Herbert is reportedly dating Madison Beer, sparking considerable buzz (Getty Images) NFL quarterbacks and celebrity romances are hardly a new pairing, but the latest buzz surrounds Los Angeles Chargers star Justin Herbert and pop singer Madison Beer. The two have been spotted together recently, with Beer even attending Herbert's December win over the Broncos, fueling speculation about a blossoming relationship. Why Justin Herbert dating Madison Beer is drawing so much attention Herbert is the face of a Chargers team now under Jim Harbaugh's demanding leadership, tasked with ending a Super Bowl drought that dates back to 1994. Off the field, he's known for being low-profile, so linking up with Beer — a Grammy-nominated singer with more than 60 million followers across Instagram and TikTok — is a notable shift into the celebrity spotlight. Herbert's own social media footprint, at just over 600,000 Instagram followers, pales in comparison, underscoring the star power imbalance between the two. For Gen Z audiences especially, Beer is a household name, first discovered by Justin Bieber and now one of music's biggest young performers. For Herbert, that attention can mean a brighter spotlight, and naturally, some critics wonder if it could interfere with his football focus. Looking at NFL history shows celebrity relationships don't always derail success Skepticism around quarterbacks dating famous partners is nothing new. Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson once drew headlines, while Russell Wilson, Jay Cutler, and Aaron Rodgers were often in the gossip pages. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 15 Most Beautiful Women Ever Today's NYC Undo But as history shows, elite athletes can thrive under the spotlight. 'Distractions? Hardly. Brady won seven Super Bowl rings. Kelce is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Allen is the NFL's reigning MVP,' one analyst pointed out, reminding fans that a high-profile love life doesn't necessarily translate to poor performance. If anything, being in a stable and supportive relationship can sometimes boost an athlete's confidence and balance. For Herbert, who is entering a pivotal chapter of his career with a new coach and big expectations, having someone in his corner may actually prove grounding rather than disruptive. Also Read: Who has Madison Beer dated before? Pop star's love life resurfaces amid Justin Herbert dating rumors At the end of the day, the Chargers need Herbert to deliver on the field. And as one insider quipped, 'On the field, let's let Justin cook. Off it, give him some room to canoodle.' For now, the romance may be less about distraction and more about Herbert simply enjoying a personal life that matches the intensity of his professional one. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
Hindustan Times
2 hours ago
- Hindustan Times
Not so novel: Could book lovers please stop showing off all the time?
Performative reading is not new. Books have been a status symbol since the first printed copy of the Bible rolled off Gutenberg's press in the 1450s. Today's bookish show-offs – the ones taking selfies with their just-read pile, posting aesthetic bookshelf décor, photographing their sticky-note annotations, posing with tea + window + novel – they're only a modern update. Manjit Bawa's painting of a girl reading a book suggests that reading has always been performative. On Goodreads and StoryGraph, it's hard not to feel a little jealous when someone mentions how many books they've read this month. (OMG, five? August isn't even over yet!) Online, everyone else's shelf looks so much smarter than yours (Funner too, somehow). There are readers who track chapters the way joggers count the miles they've run (Tedious, but so disciplined). And every serious reader is now expected to maintain multiple reading lists: A personal one, one for the book club, one for when you're tired of the other two. And if you didn't post a Reel of your group's silent reading session, did you even go? Readers have always been show-offs, as hinted by Luis Jimenez Aranda's The Bibliophiles. 'There's a lot of pressure to finish a certain number of books in a year now,' says Vidhya A Thakkar, 30, book blogger and social-media strategist. Thakkar began reviewing books for her blog, Reader Viddh (@Reader_Viddh) in 2017, and makes her way through 70 to 120 books a year. She lets 'the book choose the pace'. So, it seems mildly sus when someone else, who doesn't do this full-time, claims to have read more in the same period. Are they really reading? That's not the point. Once you've made your reading habits public, expect judgement. In Japan, novels come in paper jackets to keep the contents private (all the better to enjoy smutty raito noberu on the Metro). But on the Reddit thread, r/bookshelf, users post pictures of their shelves, asking others to comment. Noam Chomsky? You're prepping for a protest. Yuval Noah Harari? You like your wisdom pre-digested. Young Adult romances? You're optimistic, maybe a little kinky. Self-help? Red flag; why hasn't fiction healed you instead? Dostoevsky or Murakami? Ooh, you've got refined taste. Every Booker winner, ever? You can't judge literary merit by yourself. Of course, reading is good. Reading more is better. 'If you're picking up a book, you're already doing something right,' Thakkar says. But reading for social validation, reading mostly to make the book club like you, reading just to endlessly debate a fan – that's no longer about the books. 'I don't attend book clubs or discussions for this reason,' says Thakkar. 'How much can you dissect one piece of literature?' In art, books reflected prestige and serious intent, as seen in this Mizuno Toshikata Kusonoki painting. Ashley Tisdale, in a home-tour video in 2022, not only showed off a well-stocked book case, she also pretended to be, in her own tired phrasing, a 'voracious reader'. She only revealed later that the books had been bought a few days earlier, for the shoot. The books in Dakota Johnson's house (like the famous lemons) were for show too. Grimes trolled us all in 2021 by saying she read The Communist Manifesto. She was once in a relationship with Elon Musk, hardly a Marx-approved match. Across art, books have been symbols of privilege, refinement and power. Women used them to signal that they were literate and had time for leisure. Men clutched them in portraits to show serious intent. In the Insta age, a book might simply mean that someone has the discipline to finish a whole novel despite the pinging distraction of a screen. 'Even then, we shouldn't judge people by how they read, what they read, and the way they interact with the book,' says Thakkar. If you enjoy spy thrillers or Harry Potter fanfic, you do you. 'People criticise writers such as Ravinder Singh and Chetan Bhagat, but they paved the way for Indian readers. If I hadn't read those books then, I wouldn't be reading everything I do now.' From HT Brunch, August 23, 2025 Follow us on
Hindustan Times
2 hours ago
- Hindustan Times
The Brunch round-up for August 23: The week and how it made us feel
Enjoying this flex. We knew Hafthor Björnsson looked familiar when we saw clips of him deadlift 505kgs at a competition in Germany, breaking his own world record. We looked closer. Hey! That's The Mountain from Game of Thrones! OK, his name is literally Half Thor and he's living up to it. How has this man become even bigger after playing the tallest, biggest character ever? Hafthor Björnsson (The Mountain from GOT) set a world record by deadlifting 505kg. (INSTAGRAM/@THORBJORNSSON) AOL is officially ending its dial-up internet service. Alexa, play 'Skreeee beep beep bop beee'. (ADOBE STOCK) Logging out. Sorry, Millennials. Another giant of our childhoods has fallen. On September 30, AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service. Skreeee beep beep bop beee, the sound of the modem running, the sound of childhood, of a nicer internet, will go quiet after 34 years. Is it weird if we want to make it our ringtone? Can we stop fighting over whether Bodhana Sivanandan is Indian or Brit, and celebrate her talent? (INSTAGRAM/@EFCCHESS) Crowning a queen. Bodhana Sivanandan is British, 10 and the youngest female player to defeat a chess grandmaster. She did it at the 2025 British Chess Championships, beating 60-year-old Peter Wells. Watch the comments: Indians are claiming her for their own. Brits are too. Racists only care about achievements, not people. Boo! Kevin O'Leary plays a jerk in Marty Supreme, just like he does on Shark Tank USA. Paddling up. We knew that Timothée Chalamet plays a ping-pong player in Marty Supreme. We weren't expecting to see Shark Tank USA judge, Kevin O'Leary (aka Mr Wonderful) as the fictional millionaire Milton Rockwell. O'Leary says that director Josh Safdie was looking for 'a real a**h*l*' for the role. That's 100% O'Leary's shtick. The Ritz-Carlton LA rooms will soon have beauty fridges with skincare worth $142. We're obsessed. (ADOBE STOCK) Slathering up. The new amenity at the Ritz-Carlton LA from next month: A beauty fridge – $142 worth of cleanser, serum, moisturiser, eye masks and chilled cryotherapy globes that guests can take home. There's a light-therapy mask to use in the rooms too. You can keep your overpriced minibar, hotels. This is the delicious stuff. Jellyfish shut down one of France's largest nuclear power plants. That's great teamwork! (SHUUTERSTOCK) Feeling jelly. We knew there was strength in numbers. A swarm of jellyfish legit shut down one of France's largest nuclear power plants after entering the water intake systems. They didn't mean to. Or did they? The jiggly blobs are history sheeters. They've shut down plants in Japan, Sweden, USA and the Philippines. Can we join their W/A group? We are manifesting mom-son roles for Heather and Gaten Matarazzo in the Princess Diaries sequel. (INSTAGRAM/@GATENMATARAZZO) Closing the loop. For years, fans assumed that Heather Matarazzo (Anne Hathaway's activist bestie in The Princess Diaries), was mommy to Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin in Stranger Things). Same last name, same features too. Heather, 42, met Gaten, 22, last week. Just cast him in the upcoming The Princess Diaries movie, guys! We love Reels that show men flaunting blow-dried hair, toupees and wigs. That's mane character energy. (INSTAGRAM/@MATTLOVESHAIR) Combing over. We're thrilled that more Reels show men doing their skincare and blow-drying their hair correctly. But we're ecstatic that more Reels show men confidently putting on toupees and wigs, and tacking balding like it's NBD. It isn't. Even @MattLovesHair has chill fans. You do you, men. We're loving this! From HT Brunch, August 23, 2025 Follow us on
