Sai bhaji for us is simple green vegetables like spinach, etc but for Sindhi Hindus in India its a typical Sindhi dish. Overall a good read containing some interesting and informative bits and pieces.
Jan 20, Snigdha rated it it was amazing Shelves: indian-author , loving-these-easy-reads , self-help-inspirational , non-fiction , autobiography. In this book, K-Jo has candidly described his childhood and his progression in Bollywood, also it has a dedicated chapter for Shah Rukh Khan portraying the relationship between the two.
These expectations can drain you. It's a must read for some one who's looking for a light hearted non-fiction read. And the concluding line totally won my heart, "Death doesn't scare me. Life sometimes does. Jul 17, Seemeen Yousufzai rated it liked it. As you begin to read the book, the narration style improves page by page and you would begin to connect with the child Karan a lot and also empathize with him. The humble and innocent Karan stays with us until the death of his father.
Post his father death, you would sense a rise in arrogance and over-smartness in his actions as well as the narration style. A fairly well-written book. Honest, even while justifying his actions he cannot cover his shortcomings. It just gives away. It was interesting As you begin to read the book, the narration style improves page by page and you would begin to connect with the child Karan a lot and also empathize with him.
It was interesting to read and also to get a slight insight into how things work in the film industry - business and politics.
View all 6 comments. Feb 16, Ishwarya Arasu rated it liked it. A nice book! In his book, he has said many things about himself and in the process I think he has vent some frustration also. He has written too much about himself, which we at a point think it's enough!
But he seems to be a genuine and a good person, one who pays a lot of respect to elders and relationships. It is just another biography and there is nothing suspenseful or digging up a secret kind of thin A nice book! It is just another biography and there is nothing suspenseful or digging up a secret kind of thing in his life that we need to know, but we can know in and out about this guy!
Jan 08, Rushmee Thapa rated it really liked it. I always love Karan Johar. He is indeed the most talented, creative and socialistic film maker.
I am in much love with his show Koffee with Karan as well. So, this was kind of deep inside his life read. I loved how he was always a people's person and his frankness in the novel and his connection with his dad. It is definitely a motivational, emotional and heart warming read.
He is undoubtedly "ek anokha ladka". Oct 24, Sahej Marwah rated it it was ok. You're telling me, with Karan Johar's money and stature, he could only afford a writer who makes him sound like a whiney, poor little rich kid? Feb 02, Shitiz Srivastava rated it it was amazing. I am a film buff so I know a lot about him, but still I was apprehensive about what it would be about. To my surprise, I found it to be a great read. To me, it feels right that now I know Karan Johar as my next door neighbour.
The book is nicely written in a linear timeline and you won't have a problem finishing it at one reading. One of the reasons I liked this book was because the sto So yesterday night I came home late and bought Karan Johar's book "An Unsuitable Boy" and started reading it. One of the reasons I liked this book was because the stories that are written in the book are very familiar to me. They are all buddies of Karan but at times it appears like you were there too and they are your buddies as well.
I have grown up watching movies by Karan Johar and I always loved his films. I think the "K" letter fixture worked for him despite the supernatural tag attached with it. I believe that it was his strong belief and it worked because he started his film with a premise that if he starts his film with the letter "K" his films won't flop. The belief worked in his favour and all his films before "My name is Khan" were big hits in India but now he makes most of his money from the international market.
I think he should go back to his belief of suffixing every title of his movie with "K". As a matter of fact, he stopped believing in the supernatural letter Fixation after watching RajKumar Hirani's Brilliant film "Munnabhai MBBS" which he thought was a great film despite its weird name.
I want to say to him that if something works for someone else then it doesn't mean it would work for him as well. Everyone has their own sets of beliefs and the need to stick with it. There were so many things that I believe he has assumed about life.
Like about being was filthy rich and having a comfortable life. I don't think he has ever seen any poverty so to him he was a poor kid growing up in south Bombay whose father worked owned business as well as was a producer of Hindi films and knew every who's who of the industry.
But it was not his mistake. He was a pampered child who was exceptionally talented and had access to good people around him. Well, he was rich but to his own standards, he was middle class, probably because he hadn't seen the middle class. In the book, he talks about his love for Shahrukh Khan and Aditya Chopra. It really moved me. I was really emotional reading what he thinks about Aditya Chopra. He was a mentor cum friend for him who was always there for him. There was an interesting anecdote about Shahrukh Khan he shares, actually, there were many but here is the one that I liked most.
When Karan was getting underworld threats and was told he might be attacked on the night of his film's premiere, he decided not to come out and hid himself in a room. Shahrukh came and forcefully took him to the premiere. He told him that nothing would happen and he has to attend his first film's premiere.
Though out the event, Shahrukh was in front of him to prove to him that if they shoot bullet it would first hit him. That, my friends, is Shahrukh Khan for you. There is a reason why Karan Johar values Shahrukh Khan so much.
I am also a big Shahrukh Khan Fan so I can connect with him on that. Karan I guess is a person who really wants people to be really close to him. He is desperate to have closeness and rarely gets any because kind of closeness that he expects only comes from blood relations.
Being the only child I believe he misses having an elder brother or a kid sister or cousins he could blindly trust. I can understand that because I don't have a sister. When I was a kid, I would see other kids playing with their sisters and at that time I really wanted a sister in my life and would be always angry on my parents for not giving me a sister.
I compensated by making other girls my sister but it never worked. They never loved me the way I wanted to be loved. I was possessive about them and was ready to stand with them but they were not. I was always a friend to them whom they also called brother. Blood is blood and nothing can compensate that. Karan desperately tries to fall in love with people and that's what makes him a most misunderstood person of the entire film industry.
He is very vulnerable and I believe that people around him take that for lack of masculinity. He wants someone in his life who is just his and no one else's but no one is ready to live for him. That is why I believe he adopted two kids. Whatever he wrote in the book has inspired me to make my own movie and has made my life really simple. If this guy has faced so many problems while making his own films, then I am very lucky that I don't have any problems.
The book I believe could have gone more in depth of other aspects of his life and at times appears superficial. There were already many stories about his life that we already know. He has also made sure that no one gets hurt while reading his book.
Also at times, I am reading a book written by Shahrukh Khan's biggest fan. But overall, it was a nice read. Since I wasn't expecting much so I believe that I got more than I expected from this book. Mar 12, Anie Gpn rated it it was ok. The book is an open, deeply moving, and personal account of Karan Johar's life and the Bollywood industry. Karan Johar is associated with achievement, elegance, quick wit, and outspokenness, which sometimes causes controversy and makes headlines unintentionally.
He opens up about his upbringing, the influence of his Sindhi mother and Punjabi father, his fascination with Bollywood, his journey into films, friendships with Aditya Chopra, SRK, and Kajol, his love life, and much more in his autobiog The book is an open, deeply moving, and personal account of Karan Johar's life and the Bollywood industry. He opens up about his upbringing, the influence of his Sindhi mother and Punjabi father, his fascination with Bollywood, his journey into films, friendships with Aditya Chopra, SRK, and Kajol, his love life, and much more in his autobiography An Unsuitable Boy.
In his signature frank style, he discusses the ever-changing face of Indian cinema, as well as problems and learnings, alliances, and rivalries in industry. May 01, Debasmita Bhowmik rated it liked it. This book terribly needs an editor. How this was co-written with a senior journalist is beyond me. Deitel, Harvey Deitel pdf. Edwin Estes P. Morrison P. Lapeyrouse PDF. Voet, Charlotte W.
Pratt PDF. Hurlock PDF. Walker P. Brown, Brent L. Iverson, Eric V. Anslyn, Christopher S. Foote pdf. Cooper, Robert E. Hausman PDF. Roquelaure PDF. Cook, M. Stuart P. Slavin P. I was very close to a Parsi. She stayed on the seventh floor with her. They were like my extended family. I se used to come back home and often go and play with them. Farzana ou had this hold over me because she knew that I was needy. And she took io H at m.
Shes very much in my life today too. She ul do n. She doesnt understand irc an rc R. She lives in South Mumbai with her husband. She fo uin. She ot g N Pen. I grew up with Farzana. She has seen me through every phase. It ht. Even now, she can be rude and nasty to rig. And I take it because its her. She has a kind of spunk in the way py Co. I was obsessed with Farzana. In a way, she made up for the sibling I didnt have. She would bully me. Whenever she wanted to leave and go back to her home, I would start crying.
She was in and out of my house and I was in and out of hers. I still have an obsession with Parsi food because of her family.
I I am not very religious, though I used to fake it. My father said a three- minute prayer every morning, bare-chested, with a towel around him. He used to do this combination prayer which was really interesting. It oscillated between three religions. He would do this in front of a little temple we had. And he was the only one who did so.
My mother, like me, pretends to be religious but she is not. She goes to the gurdwara about once a year. My nani grew up in a building called Shyam Nivas in Bombay, which has the citys most famous gurdwara in it. Both my parents had the gurdwara in common. But my father was a more proactive religious man. He was an Arya Samaji. He didnt believe in rituals. He didnt believe in. But he always. And I was very intrigued by how it oscillated between all the three religions.
We all spoke to each other io H at m. There was no grandparent around. And my father was a ul do n. And I think he got that from being self-made. My father grew up in Shimla and then moved to Delhi he lived briefly py Co. His entire family had a sweet mart business, called Nanking Sweets, in Delhi. He was one of nine siblings and around the time he was eighteen, he was told to sit at the counter, which he was very depressed about. There were sisters who were married or about to be married or working, and then there was a host of brothers who was running the business along with my grandfather.
My father was given the counter job probably because he was the only one who had been educated up to a point and spoke English well. He told me that his grandmother always felt he had a bright spark. He was the most modern one among all his siblings.
When he was given this counter duty, my grandmother took him aside and said, Run away, leave, youre not going to be happy doing. You are made for greater things than sitting in a halwai ki dukan, selling sweets. She gave him money and jewellery and said, Go to Bombay and make a life for yourself.
Shed faked a robbery in the house a week before that when she said her jewellery was missing. She had it all planned. And they sacked a member of the staff for the robbery!
It was all plotted by her. My father didnt know this initially, till she told him the truth. She said she never wanted anyone to know that shed given him anything. She wanted him to just vanish. She said she would handle his grandfather. The first thing he found. So he went in and se asked around if any of the divisions were hiring.
My father began working with himfor a paltry amount. Thats ul do n. My father would usually just hang fo uin. And then one day, Mr Dubey fell sick. So my father reached ot g N Pen. Those daysthis was the. So she allowed him to take pictures of her. She took him to her py Co. His photographs of Madhubala were what got him more work in the company. His first job in Bombay was as a still photographer with the Times of India.
Subsequently, he got into films and became a production person. He worked with almost everybody in the industry. Then he finally landed a job as a production controller, which was his longest tenure. His biggest, longest and most loyal association was with Devsaab. Of course, one year later he went back home, and by then it was all okay with his father. They understood that he had made a life for himself in Bombay.
He started off living as a PG, then he began staying in a hotel called Marina, in Mahim, where he had a close friend, Rashid Abbasi, who I knew as Rashid uncle. They stayed together in this hotel for about nine years, till he moved to South Bombay and shifted into a rented apartment. He remained a bachelor.
In , he actually gave up movies after being associated with them for over thirty years, and started an export firm. It was probably a better business opportunity for him but Goldie Bahls and Shrishti Aryas father, Ramesh Bahl who had a company called Rose Movies , encouraged him to get back to films. My father decided to produce. He even approached Gulzar to direct a film for him but that. It was a SalimJaved ou script. Dostana was his first film. And it was a hit.
But it was his onlyhit. After he got married, his office was near the race course in Mahalaxmi. It was a godown converted into an office. Every time it rained it would irc an rc R. You could see the race course from the office. It was a fo uin. I have vivid memories of that office. I used to go there a lot as a child and I used to hang around, and ht. Later on, after my college, I worked rig. However, I made py Co.
It was a rented place and we eventually let go of it and gave it back to the family it belonged to. In any case, in the last ten years wed begun using it as a godown once again. It didnt make any sense to keep it since we were doing nothing with it.
But yes, that was our first office. I My mother grew up in Kanpur and Lucknow, and studied in Nainital. She knew Amit uncle Amitabh Bachchan from college. Amit uncle was at Sherwood and she was at St Marys.
They were a gang of friends. I remember her telling me how she burst out laughing when Amit uncle told her he was going to be a movie actor. She said, YOU are going be in Hindi movies? She knew his family background. He was a major poets son, and Hindi movies were not considered to be culturally the most desirable thing.
My maternal grandparents were very conservative. My grandfather did not allow my mother to become an air hostess; it was too much for his traditional mindset. So she worked as Alitalia ground staff, went to Rome and studied Italian.
She did all that before she got married. My parents met at the race course and fell in love quickly, the. My mother was about twenty-seven then and.
She used to go every Sunday. My dad was se thirty-nine and best friends with a lot of people in Bombays social ou zone. He also knew all the movie stars. He was like the Sea Linkhe io H at m. He ul do n. That was my father. You wanted anything in this world to be fo uin. He saw my mother and, in true Hindi film style, chased her for.
Initially, she acted very stuck uphe came from the film ht. They met in February, and my mothers birthday is on 18 March. My father called her and said he wanted to throw a party for her. Somehow she agreed. He threw a big party for her at Bhalla House which is in Pali Hill.
It was owned by a man called Satish Bhalla who was a very popular man in Pali Hill. So my father threw this big bash there and since he was the rakhi brother of Waheeda Rahman and Sadhana, all the top-notch actresses were there. In fact, pretty much everybody from the film industry was there. And in front of everyone, he proposed to my mother. She didnt know what to say! Finally she said, Youll have to meet my father.
So my father, who was thirteen years older than my mom, went off to meet his to-be father-in-law. But he was such a good man that my nana who was very stuck up about certain things, melted immediately. My parents were married on 20 May in the same Bhalla House. Their wedding photographs are full of movie stars.
Leena Daru who was a film costume stylist prepared my mothers trousseau. It was a full-on filmi wedding. Almost everyone from the Hindi film industry attended. For my mothers side of the family, this was a totally different world from what they were used to.
I was born exactly a year later. But ironically, all my love for Hindi movies comes ul do n. Even today, she would come and watch my movies or other irc an rc R. But she loved fo uin. Hindi film music.
And thats what crept into my head and made me go ot g N Pen. I did go through a phase where, like all other kids, I listened to ht. Madonna, George Michael, and so on. Listening to music on your rig. Walkman was a big deal then. For about two years I did this fake py Co. I also read a lot in those days.
I was obsessed with Enid Blyton. I didnt grow up in the computer age or the mobile phone era. There was this green patch on the screen, and I remember being riveted. I hated watching sports but I couldnt take my eyes off the screen because of that patch of green. It was such an age of discovery. When I see kids today, I am amazed that they dont go through those beats at allits just all there for them.
But back then, the excitement of going to a thelawala and buying Archie comics! The excitement of going to one of those little provision stores that kept foreign chocolates and looking at a Mars bar or a Kit Kat or a Coke bottle with awe, and emptying your piggy bankwe all had piggy banks those daysand making sure you had 20 rupees to buy them.
Buying the Coke can, bringing it home, staring at it for a while, then opening it with precision and taking little sips, and placing a plate on it so that it didnt lose its fizz. These are my childhood memories pardon me that they are food related but those foreign chocolates and Coke cans were a very big deal those days.
When he came back, Id. He would have come late at night when I was ou asleep; I remember that excitement, that Papa was back and his suitcase io H at m. These were the little things that excited us as ul do n.
I loved food. The food we ate was more inclined to my mothers side rig. We had a lot of sae bhaji, khichri and py Co. It was basic Indian food. And for years, we had a really good cook, Kedar, whose mutton was world famous.
Everyone raved about it. And I was obsessed with eating. I was very fat, so kids often called me fatty. That just got me more into my shell. It used to bother me a hell of a lot but it never stopped me from eating. I believed there was no other wayI just had to eat for my own happiness. Now that I think about it, subconsciously or psychologically, my only friend was food. I had a relationship with food that helped me tide over all the other issues I had in my head.
I needed to eat for comfort and solace. I still remember coming back from school when I was in the eighth standard and ordering from a. They made the best chicken makhanwala and naan. And the happiness I got when the food came in front of me and I ate it alone!
Then there was Chinese Room, this little restaurant in Kemps Corner. I would send for chicken fried rice, sweet and sour chicken which was my favourite and chicken sweet corn soup. Just waiting for the food to come would make me happy. There was a lady called Azra Buryawala who made chocolates from her home and many a time I used to lie to her and say, Aunty, its my birthday and I want your chocolate cake.
I would eat that whole one kilo cake on my own. I ordered it many times and the cake would. I would hide the cake in my room and demolish se it. It cost about rupees and Id buy it from the money Id got on ou Diwali and other occasions. There was once an incident with a big box of Quality Street ul do n. It was sealed but I found a little edge where I could just peel irc an rc R. At fo uin. When my mother found out, I got a slap from her, one.
The second slap was when she ht. My rig. When my mother saw this, she asked me, py Co. Can you not tie your shoelaces on your own? I answered, Of course, I can. She said, Show me. Then I had to confess I couldnt. I just couldnt make that knot. She slapped me hard and said, Thats all you are going to do today. Tie shoelaces! But she didnt realize that Id quietly go and make my maid tie my shoelaces. I just couldnt do it. Even today, I have a problem tying a knot. I do it but it doesnt come easily to me.
I put that scene in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham That fat kid in the film is a little bit of me. My father, of course, never raised his voice or his hand at me, ever. I was the apple of his eye. All I needed to do was shed a tear and. My mother, on the other hand, tried to be strict and enforce discipline. She was the one I was afraid of. I We had a club next door called the WIAA and it had a pool, a table tennis table and a badminton court. A lot of my life was spent at that club.
We had a very strong club culture in our area. In the evenings, Id go to the club, come back, watch TV, do nothing much, eat dinner. That was my school routine. I would get very upset se when she did that. Even now I get very disturbed. When she goes quiet, ou it bothers me, I cant take it. Now I have trained her not to, but at that io H at m. The only times I remember crying were when I wanted to go to irc an rc R. Hindi film previews. The biggest showdowns I had with her were when fo uin.
I used to weep to see a movie. If the preview was at nine in the night ot g N Pen. My only access avenue was previews or when my mother rig. While she py Co. Sometimes I dont understand how I have this fascination for cinema, though I know it started with music. My mother used to listen to music on cassettes and she had this Akai music system. All my knowledge of Hindi film music knowledge of the s, 50s and 60s, I got from my mother.
Pick any song. My mother used to hold my hand and dance to Elvis Presley numbers. She loved Elvis. She went to an Elvis Presley concert during her honeymoon with my father in Las Vegas and fainted. She fainted! My Punjabi producer father could not handle this happening on their honeymoon! But my mother was one of those fanatical Elvis fans; she also knew of the Beatles.
Although not a movie buff, she loved watching Rock Hudson and Doris Day starrers. So there was the Hollywood influence too. My mother was quite a chick in the s. My parents used to have a party at Waheeda auntys house on. The content of this book are easy to be understood. You will enjoy reading this book while spent your free time. The expression in this word makes the reader feel to read and read thisbook again and again. Ebook Library Online is in no way intended to support illegal activity.
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