MATINEE MAN : A JOURNEY THROUGH BOLLYWOOD (HB)

Do you know that the horror
movie Mahal (1949) grew out of an eerie experience actor Ashok Kumar had
during an overnight stay at a resort? That a nervous Yusuf Khan learnt of his
screen name Dilip Kumar only from the promotions of his debut film? Or that
first-time director Aditya Chopra had to fool Shah Rukh Khan into agreeing to
a story narration by telling him that DDLJ (1995) was actually an action
film! An actor lives a hundred lives. He takes on the persona of a stranger
and becomes him. He wakes up every morning, wears a different face and sets
out to make the world his stage. And in this journey from real to Reel, the
man behind the screen idol often remains unknown, except to a chosen few.
This book attempts to go beneath the Pancake and the paint, beyond the glam
and the glory, to bring to the reader the human behind the celluloid persona.
Peppered with anecdotes and candid interviews with some of the Indian cinema
most iconic stars, matinee men is an unmatched story of Hollywood as seen through
the world of its greatest magicians, the stars.