Literature Live! Evenings and Penguin India in association
with NCPA presented an evening with author Naseeruddin Shah in conversation
with Anil Dharker at the launch of his memoir's 'And then one day' by Shyam Benegal
at Experimental theatre, NCPA.
Naseeruddin Shah has been an actor in films since 1975, and
an actor–director–teacher in theatre almost as long, having played the lead in
over two hundred feature films and more than sixty professional theatre productions,
both in India and abroad. A first-time writer, he is passionate about playing
and watching tennis, cricket and movies, in that order. The recipient of
numerous awards which he neither treasures nor cares to mention, he lives in
Mumbai with his wife, Ratna, their three children and a cat.
Naseeruddin Shah commented at the book launch, "I made
my dear ones read the book and my wife found it really hilarious and
entertaining. My book talks about my entire journey from getting into theatre
to struggles, hardships, love, family, and friends. I think I would not be
writing a second part of the book as this includes everything of my life."
And Then One Day tells a compelling tale, written with rare
honesty and consummate elegance, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humour. There
are moving portraits of family members, darkly funny accounts of his school
days, and vivid cameos of directors and actors he has worked with, among them
Ebrahim Alkazi, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad, Om Puri and Shabana Azmi. The
accounts of his struggle to earn a living through acting, his experiments with
the craft, his love affairs, his early marriage, his successes and failures are
narrated with remarkable frankness and objective self-assessment. Brimming with
delightful anecdotes as well as poignant, often painful revelations, this book
is a tour de force, destined to become a classic of the genre.
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