







Esha Gupta is super chilled out. Still, you don’t want to get into an argument with her. Though she may not have pursued her legal ambitions, rest assured she’s still got the chops.The former Miss India did a short stint as a law student, on a scholarship at Newcastle University after winning her title, before the lure of Bollywood brought her back home. Since then, she’s had our attention in films like Prakash Jha’s Chakravyuh and more recently Rustom and Baadshaho.A quintessential Bollywood outsider, Gupta grew up in “a very modest family, my dad was a Wing Commander in the Air Force,” and remembers the thrill of earning ₹1,000 for her first fashion show. More than a decade later, she has a hush-hush Indo-international project she’s currently working on, plans to “jump out a plane” (just sky-diving, relax) and a penchant for partying in Dubai.