Darlingji
Title | Darlingji PDF eBook |
Author | Kishwar Desai |
Publisher | HarperCollins India |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | 9788172236977 |
Biographies of Sunil Dutt,1930-2005 and Nargis Dutt, 1929-1981, Hindi motion picture actors.
Darling Ji
Title | Darling Ji PDF eBook |
Author | Kishwar Desai |
Publisher | HarperHindi |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2010-11-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9788172238711 |
During the making of Mother India, Nargis is trapped in a circle of flames and Sunil risks his life to save her. They recuperate together, and fall in love. Nargis has been in a long but futile relationship with the mercurial Raj Kapoor, and in Sunil she finally finds an anchor. Their relationship is stormy and secretive to start with, but it survives every crisis to culminate in a quite wedding on 11 March 1958. What follows are years of togetherness, including the joys of caring three children, Sanjay, Namrata and Priya but also days of pain and heartbreak: financuial trouble, Nargis's illness, Sanjay's addiction to drugs. Based on the diaries and letters of Nargis, Sunil and their daughter Priya, as well as on conversations and interviews with family and friends, Darlingji - as they often addressed each other - is a probing yet affectionate biography of two extraordinary people and their love for each other. Travelling as it does from the nineteenth century to the present, the book tells the larger story of the evolution of Hindi cinema, and of a society and a nation in the throes of change.
Witness the Night
Title | Witness the Night PDF eBook |
Author | Kishwar Desai |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1471101533 |
In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl, barely alive, is found in a sprawling house where thirteen people lie dead. The girl has been beaten and abused, and the house still smoulders from the fire that raked through it. The girl now awaits her trial for the murders that the local police believe she has committed. But an unconventional social worker, Simran Singh, is convinced of her innocence. As Simran begins to examine the circumstances around the case, she encounters a terrifying web of prejudice and deceit in which lives of women are endangered from birth. Brilliantly descriptive of tradition-bound Punjab, Kishwar Desai's debut novel introduces the feisty and independent Simran, whose determination to seek out the truth places her at odds with her environment. What she discovers will change her forever.
The True Love Story Of Nargis & Sunil Dutt
Title | The True Love Story Of Nargis & Sunil Dutt PDF eBook |
Author | Kishwar Desai |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2007-10-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9351160653 |
In the late nineteenth century, in a small village in northern India, a thirteen-year-old Brahmin widow meets a Muslim sarangi player and elopes with him. Many years later, their daughter Jaddanbai moves to Bombay and becomes a star of the early talkies. Chateau Marine, her home on Marine Drive, is famous for its evening mehfils and for the dreams it nurtures: regular visitors include Dilip Kumar, Mehboob and Kamal Amrohi. It is also the home of Fatima, Jaddanbai's daughter, who will set the screen ablaze as Nargis, the most accomplished actress of her time.Far removed from this world of glamour, a young boy named Balraj Dutt spends his teenage years attempting to rehabilitate himself and his family after the trauma of Partition. In 1950, at the age of twenty, he arrives in Bombay. And there his life takes an unexpected turn: he is given the lead role in a new film, and is soon on his way to becoming Sunil Dutt, the film star.Then comes the moment that transforms both their lives: on 1 March 1957, during the making of Mother India, Nargis is trapped in a circle of flames and Sunil risks his life to save her. They recuperate together, and fall in love. Nargis has been in a long but futile relationship with the mercurial Raj Kapoor, and in Sunil she finally finds an anchor. Their relationship is stormy and secretive to start with, but it survives every crisis to culminate in a quite wedding on 11 March 1958. What follows are years of togetherness, including the joys of caring three children, Sanjay, Namrata and Priya but also days of pain and heartbreak: financuial trouble, Nargis's illness, Sanjay's addiction to drugs.Based on the diaries and letters of Nargis, Sunil and their daughter Priya, as well as on conversations and interviews with family and friends, Darlingji - as they often addressed each other - is a probing yet affectionate biography of two extraordinary people and their love for each other. Travelling as it does from the nineteenth century to the present, the book tells the larger story of the evolution of Hindi cinema, and of a society and a nation in the throes of change.
Mr. and Mrs. Dutt
Title | Mr. and Mrs. Dutt PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | 9788174364555 |
On the life and achievements of Sunil Dutt,1930-2005 and Nargis Dutt,1929-1981, Hindi motion picture actors.
The Life and Times of Nargis
Title | The Life and Times of Nargis PDF eBook |
Author | T. J. S. George |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Biography of Nargis Dutt, 1929-1981, Indian motion picture actress.
Sanjay Dutt
Title | Sanjay Dutt PDF eBook |
Author | Yasser Usman |
Publisher | Juggernaut Books |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9386228580 |
IndiaÕs top Bollywood biographer tells the uncensored story of SanjayÕs roller-coaster life Ð from the tragic deaths of both his mother and his first wife to the time he smuggled heroin into the US and from the painful rehab he had to go through to his curious phone calls to gangster Chhota Shakeel.