An Unsuitable Boy Karan Johar (with Poonam Saxena) 2017 Penguin India pp. 352 I picked up this book because I wanted to read something light, and positive. The resonating image of Karan Johar is of a chirpy, happy, rich, over the top Bollywood celebrity and I thought how terse would his auto biography be! It…
Khwab ke Gaon Mein (Hindi) Javed Akhtar, Arvind Mandloi 2017 Manjul pp. 84 I picked up this book in hope of reading some light poetry by Akhtar. Although classified as poetry, there are sections in this book that are more or less snippets of his thoughts. The introductiony m Mandloi is quite engaging but the…
Cracking the Code- My Journey in Bollywood Ayushmann Khurana & Tahira Kashyap 2015 Rupa pp. 158 I am not a movie buff and I am not an aspiring actor. I do not get inspired to read biographies of famous people. Yet, I picked up Khurana’s (& Tahira’s) book. This should be an indication that I…
