Business Daily meets: Masaba Gupta
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Not many fashion designers can say they've starred in their own TV series alongside their mother.
For this edition of Business Daily, Devina Gupta talks to Indian entrepreneur and social media influencer Masaba Gupta.
The daughter of Indian actor Neena Gupta and West Indian cricketer Sir Viv Richards, Masaba discusses how her mixed heritage has inspired the vibrant prints she's become famous for.
(Picture: Masaba Gupta)
Presenter: Devina Gupta Producer: Lexy O'Connor
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Una Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles. |
| 0:05.7 | It tells the story of how my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others, were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. |
| 0:15.3 | Hollywood Exiles from CBC Podcasts and the BBC World Service. |
| 0:20.1 | Find it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:25.6 | A lot of it was rebellion. Everything that I was doing came from a place of anger and to sort of |
| 0:30.8 | give it back to people who just, well, didn't really shame me, but shame my mother. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello and Namaste. Welcome to Business Daily Meets where we talk to inspiring people from the world of business. |
| 0:42.9 | Today I get to meet someone I've been fascinated by since my early work days. |
| 0:47.7 | She's an icon of Indian fashion. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm a bit of a cynic. |
| 0:52.0 | I don't believe in the work-life balance. |
| 0:54.7 | Maybe it's a founder's mentality. |
| 0:57.4 | As well as running a luxury clothes line, |
| 1:00.4 | she starred in a Netflix series with her mother. |
| 1:03.5 | Look, Mom, I've decided that no men only were. |
| 1:07.0 | Launched a beauty brand and has almost 2 million followers on Instagram. |
| 1:12.2 | Hi guys, so today I wanted to do something different for my makeup but also something basic. |
| 1:17.8 | I keep saying social media is like a video game. |
| 1:19.8 | You just have to win points and stay alive. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm Divina Gupta and on this edition of Business Daily, we meet Indian fashion designer and celebrity Masaba Gupta. |
| 1:31.4 | Hi Masaba, are you able to hear me? |
| 1:33.5 | Yes, I am. |
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