A book is born - Part III
24.7.2013, Mumbai
It
was an ordinary day and I was checking my mails when I came across
Publisher Rohit Gupta of Pustak Mahal asking me for a quick easy read
cinema book. Fragmented
Frames (2007) is a
collection of essays delving on the genesis and growth of cinema,
capturing the magic and the madness of show business. It travels you
through varied subjects and phases of the dream world and was proudly
released by Gulzar saab
in Mumbai.
Krishna-
The God who lived as Man
is a tran-creation of Kajal Vaidya Oza’s Krishnaayan
in Gujarati. It is my only book outside of cinema and there are too
many miracles associated with it to be passed off as co-incidences.
Lord Krishna is the eighth child of his parents; I am the eighth of
my parents. It is my eighth book and it is published in the year 2008
and these are sufficient reasons to justify why the book occupies a
special place in my heart and will continue to do so for ever.
The
90s decade besides the computer, electronic media and the internet
saw the rise of web portals. I was heading a creative time appointed
to create a portal exclusively on Amitabh Bachchan and was compiling
credits and trivia of all his films.
A chance meeting with Neville
Tulli of Osians was the beginning of a magnificent book Bachchanalia
(2009) published a decade after my first The
Legend on the actor in
1999. Bachchanalia
is a celebration of an actor’s extra-ordinary body of work spanning
4 decades and 100 plus films.
(To
be continued)
Bhawana
Somaaya/ @bhawnasomaaya
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