Producer Madhu Mantena who earlier produced movies like Raktha Charitra and Ghajini(Hindi) got engaged to Masaba, fashion designer and daughter of Viv Richards and Neena Gupta. Only close friends of Madhu and Masaba were invited to this party.The couple is set to marry in November and the wedding date is yet to be fixed.
Masaba looked gorgeous in Shivan and Naresh’s ebony and ivory neoprene lehenga. “Kal hamaari sagai thi. Aaj hum khush hain. Aur 7 din mein hamaara show hai! Thank you for the love, now back to wrk,” Masaba, posted on Twitter along with a photograph of herself all decked up for her special day.
Many biggies from Bollywood attended the function and producer Allu Arvind who earlier co produced Ghajini in Hindi also attended the event. Madhu Manthena was born in Hyderabad and he is associated with RGV most of the time since he was into distributing films.
He involved in the production and distribution of films across Bollywood, Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema in India and overseas through Phantom Films.Masaba Gupta is the well known designer in Bollywood and she happens to be the daughter of WI cricketer Vivian Richards and actress Neena Gupta out of wed-lock.
The duo were in relationship in 1980s and Masaba born out of wedlock. Vivian Richards will attend wedding of Masaba which in all probability is likely to take place in November this year.Madhu Mantena co-founded Phantom Films with Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl and Vikramaditya Motwane, which went on to deliver a number of films like Lootera, Queen, Hasee Toh Phasee and the yet to be released Bombay Velvet.
Madhu Mantena made it to the Limca Book of Records for releasing seven films, produced by him, in theatres, within a time span of 50 days. This is the maximum number of release in different languages by one producer in the shortest time. Four of the films were released within a short span of just eight days.