Who doesn’t want to be rich and famous? Who doesn’t like to be in the spotlight? Who doesn’t want to be known globally? Well,
Esha Gupta is all of that,
Read More">but with a difference. She is someone who is all set to achieve all of the above… but all on her own merits. She has
Read MoreWho doesn't want to be rich and famous? Who doesn't like to be in the spotlight? Who doesn't want to be known globally? Well, Esha Gupta is all of that, but with a difference. She is someone who is all set to achieve all of the above... but all on her own merits. She has really worked her way hard, harder, hardest to reach the position that she is in and will be in the years to come.
After having made her presence felt as the hottest model, courtesy, the prestigious Kingfisher calendar, she is now all set to make a splash in Bollywood with her debut film Jannat 2, which stars Emraan Hashmi and Randeep Hooda. Satish Sundaresan of Bollywood Hungama caught up with this hottie par excellence for an exclusive interview. Here are the excerpts:
Esha, instead of wasting time beating around the bush, let me hit the nail on its head by asking you a straight question that... are you the reason for the sun to suffer from an inferiority complex?
(Laughs) Oh My God! It's such a huge compliment! I do wish that looking at me, the sun should get an inferiority complex! By the way, do you feel that I am that hot?
Coming back to business... How did modelling happen in the first place?
I was preparing myself to do my education in mass communication, journalism and law. That's when my mother told me to fill in the entry for the Miss India competition. Honestly speaking, I wasn't confident of being selected at all! As luck would have it, I got selected and as they say...there was no looking back after that.
What's your parental background?
My dad comes from Air Force (Wing Commander). We didn't travel much though, but we had a fun life. I always looked and still look upto him for anything and everything. My mother's runs an organization that works for the underprivileged. And my sister is a designer.
Esha, you seemed to have made it in Bollywood without a proverbial Godfather, something that's considered a 'pre-requisite'. Do you consider yourself plain, simple lucky?
I am one of those who think that success is 50 % hard work and talent and the rest 50% is pure luck. I took my own sweet time to reach the place where I am today. I don't have the proverbial Godfathers and Godmothers... Luckily, I have had good people who have guided and guarded me to reach this place! As you rightly said, in a way, I feel that I was plain, simple lucky to have not met any 'such' kind of people!