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Book review: Khullam Khulla by Rishi Kapoor

This is more a brief take than review of the book. My holiday reading was Rishi Kapoor`s Khullam Khulla,  (HarperCollins) and a thoroughly enjoyable read it turned out to be. All through, you sense the polish given by co-author veteran film journalist Meena Iyer but it is Rishi Kapoor`s strident voice heard in the book,…

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And Then One Day by Naseeruddin Shah

And Then One Day by Naseeruddin Shah (Penguin Publishers).  In which the actor talks of the theatre gods, his surreal experience at a Jerzy Grotowski workshop in Wroclaw, his abiding insecurities, how he can never quite face down all his demons; fearlessly disses his fellow actors (flakes, he calls them once) directors and producers (mountebanks, he…

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