Neena Gupta Remembers Her Very First Love Relationship: A Brief Marriage With An IITian Of A Kashmir Honeymoon

Gansta-style frankness on and off screen as well, Neena Gupta recently let her hair down in public about a lesser documented period of her life — the first romance with an IIT-Delhi student, Amlan Kumar Ghose. What was a college romance at its finest soon turned into an impulsive wedding — all for a travel privilege to Kashmir.

 

Conversing in an offhand manner with News18 Showsha, Neena embarked on a journey down the past when she fell for Amlan while falling in love with him at an inter-college fest. It was a laid-back romance — accidental meetings at college, road trips in the suburbs of IIT-Delhi, and furtive moments here and there during holidays. Having a boyfriend was completely out of limits during that time, and the secrecy only served to enhance the chemistry.

 

But one meeting turned it all around. Amlan had been organizing a holiday tour of Srinagar with friends when Neena had wanted to join him. Her mother consented — "if her daughter consented to marry," that is. And the two got married in a small Arya Samaj ceremony, without revealing their decision to Amlan's family.".

 

The two settled in a small flat in Rajender Nagar, Delhi, following the marriage and short honeymoon in Kashmir. Amlan searched for jobs while Neena geared up for her Master's in Sanskrit. But when things became real, differences crept in. Amlan wanted a home-maker. Neena had found theatre as her passion and her dream lay outside the home. The couple was separated within a year.

 

Neena had reminisced about the days earlier in a nostalgic and truthful manner. "It was young love — exciting and impulsive," she mentioned. Despite her romance with Amlan being futile, it was her period of initiation to discover herself.

 

Two decades later, following being a sole mother to Masaba Gupta and marrying chartered accountant Vivek Mehra, Neena Gupta has a life still full of bold choices and tear-jerking stories — that brief but unforgettable romance with an IITian that began in love and went all the way to Kashmir.