Living the Dream: The Life of the 'Bollywood' Actor
Living the Dream: The Life of the 'Bollywood' Actor

Author: Mark Bennington

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9789351777533

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'Nobody here wants to just make money...we all want to be famous!' The joke around town amongst actors is that Lokhandwala, in Bombay's suburbs, may be the only place where you will actually have to give an audition to rent an apartment! Aspiring actors from all over India who move here share one thing in common: a Dream - of fame, fortune and eternal glory. Living the Dream: The Life of the 'Bollywood' Actor is a visual story of those who try to make it in the world's largest film industry. Present here are newcomers waiting for the big break - Gabbar Singh, Geetika Tyagi, Varun Thakur and Kanan Chakor - juxtaposed with megastars like Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor. In all, more than a hundred photographs and interviews of people from every branch of Bollywood speak frankly, often heart-wrenchingly, of a struggle where one's pride and ego are on the line every day. As Karan Johar puts it in the Foreword, 'what this book captures is something we have never seen before - it is what life really looks like for an actor in Bombay'.

Secrets of Becoming World Class. Live Your Dream Life. Guaranteed
Secrets of Becoming World Class. Live Your Dream Life. Guaranteed

Author: Abdullah Zahid

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13:

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With years of meticulous research, this book is designed to train your brain to move towards path of becoming world legends like Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, Michael Jordan, etc. The book also contains the life stories of 20 legends of this century for how they went to conquer the world right from their childhood till the point they reached that glory. Then the book unfolds the secrets which are common to all these legendary personalities for their tremendous successes. Then the book goes onto unfold, ways in which any of normal human being could apply these secrets in their own life. It’s a must read for all those who want to leave an impact on this world and want to be remembered by generations and make this one life of theirs, a legendary one.

Slumgirl Dreaming
Slumgirl Dreaming

Author: Rubina Ali

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0375897127

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My name is Rubina Ali. I don't know when my birthday is, and nor does my father, but I do know that I am nine years old. Young Rubina is a one-in-a-million star. Plucked from among five hundred slumkids who auditioned for Danny Boyle's multi-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, she saw her fairy-tale dream of stardom come true. Now that she has stepped into the limelight, what will life hold for a young girl from the Mumbai slums? Rubina tells her own incredible story, bringing to life a world of wastelands and rat-infested shanty dwellings, where she played marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar. She introduces her beloved father, a hardworking rickshaw puller, and her siblings. And then Rubina tells of the kindness of Danny Boyle and of the time she spent on the film sets--including the hilarious incident when her costar came to be covered in chocolate from head to toe. After her brief encounter with red-carpet glamour, how will Rubina come to terms with the conditions in which she, her family, and her friends continue to live since Hollywood came knocking? This is her compelling story.

Life Behind the Lobby
Life Behind the Lobby

Author: Pawan Dhingra

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0804782024

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Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United States with few resources and, broadly speaking, they are self-employed, self-sufficient immigrants who have become successful—they live the American dream. However, framing this group as embodying the American dream has profound implications. It perpetuates the idea of American exceptionalism—that this nation creates opportunities for newcomers unattainable elsewhere—and also downplays the inequalities of race, gender, culture, and globalization immigrants continue to face. Despite their dominance in the motel industry, Indian American moteliers are concentrated in lower- and mid-budget markets. Life Behind the Lobby explains Indian Americans' simultaneous accomplishments and marginalization and takes a close look at their own role in sustaining that duality.

Bollywood in Britain
Bollywood in Britain

Author: Lucia Krämer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-06-02

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1501307584

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Bollywood in Britain provides the most extensive survey to date of the various manifestations and facets of the Bollywood phenomenon in Britain. The book analyzes the role of Hindi films in the British film market, it shows how audiences engage with Bollywood cinema and it discusses the ways the image of Bollywood in Britain has been shaped. In contrast to most of the existing books on the subject, which tend to approach Bollywood as something that is made by Asians for Asians, the book also focuses on how Bollywood has been adapted for non-Asian Britons. An analysis of Bollywood as an unofficial brand is combined with in-depth readings of texts like film reviews, the TV show Bollywood Star (2004) and novels and plays with references to the Bombay film industry. On this basis Bollywood in Britain demonstrates that the presentation of Bollywood for British mainstream culture oscillates between moments of approximation and distancing, with a clear dominance of the latter. Despite its alleged transculturality, Bollywood in Britain thus emerges as a phenomenon of difference, distance and Othering.

Your Life Your Way
Your Life Your Way

Author: Milind Sahasrabudhe

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-12-04

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1636697275

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We are born to live a free and happy life. But we have been brought up with many misbeliefs that limit us from living a life worth living. People live a mediocre life by doing what they don’t enjoy just for the sake of money since we live on a ‘Financial Planet’. People think, “This is it. My life path is set.” They feel they cannot come out of it and so they must keep living the same way. This book tries to help them understand ways with which they too can design a life that will be worth living. Your Life Your Way describes how anyone, at any level of their career, can build a career based on their passion and also can create abundance following 5 secret principles of wealth creation. Thus, this book explains how you can design ‘Your Life, Your Way’.

LIVING THE DREAM
LIVING THE DREAM

Author: Dr. M. P. Ganesh , Shrividya Somanna , S. S. Shreekumar

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2021-07-08

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1639404430

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Dr. M. P. Ganesh’s autobiography is a must read for all hockey lovers in the country and abroad. His meteoric rise from holding the hockey stick for the first time to rising to dizzy heights. The right winger like none was the Captain of the Indian team in the 1973 World Cup. His is an astounding story which should inspire all and sundry. India lost to Netherlands in that final, missing a penalty stroke in the sudden death period. Had that been scored, India would have won the World Cup for the first time ever. Ganesh’s name would have been etched in gold. But fate willed otherwise. Was there a conspiracy to deny him personal glory and the country the first World Cup? Ganesh has penned down his lucid thoughts and pondered over all the reasons for that defeat. Yet, Ganesh made it to the World XI. He was also part of two Asian Games, two World Cups and one Olympic Games. Invariably, he never returned empty-handed. His tenure as a professional with Italian club Levante HC, his marriage to Prema, whom he had not even seen before it was fixed, his son Ayyappa, his struggles in life, coaching India to the Olympic gold in 1980, becoming a super-efficient sports administrator for 25 years and eventually getting back to where it all began - Kodagu. Ganesh has described all this and more in inimitable fashion.

Reality and Dream
Reality and Dream

Author: George Devereux

Publisher:

Published: 1951

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13:

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"The only verbatim account of an entire psychotherapy ever published, together with a dynamic analysis and a technical evaluation of the therapy." Dust jacket.