“I’ll do it my way” has a new homepage

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am creating a separate blog for “I’ll do it my way”, which is going to be a separate thinking space that is distinct from my personal blog.
You can find the new homepage for “I’ll do it my way” here
Thoughts and comments are welcome.

Full stop

There are times in life when you reach a full stop. This happened with the work on the book as well. I have reached a full stop, from which I must begin a new paragraph.
 It’s finally official, and has been for the last week now. The meeting that I have been trying for with Aamir [...]

Chapter One – I’ll do it my way

As most of you know, I’ve been working on this book backwards – starting with Aamir’s latest films and moving to his early films. The interviews happen as my celebrities are ready for them… Though I’ve been trying to speak to most of the people on my interview list from Day One.
Chapter Four and Chapter [...]

Looking forward to my next interview…

I rarely talk about an interview before I do it. This has more to do with the fact that I am always really scared that something will go terribly wrong if I do
But I am a little excited about my next interview. It’s a telcon with Farhan Akhtar on the making of Dil [...]

Pre-release media publicity for the book

Some pre-release publicity for the book in The Sunday Mid-day that was featured in both Bombay and Bangalore. To read it, click here
The interview was done at my publisher’s request.  I was not completely happy with the outcome as it calls the book a biography, which it isn’t. Secondly, it also requests comments from Aamir’s office before [...]

The Writer’s Space

The good part of the last year has seen me involved with studying Aamir Khan’s cinematic work for my current writing project. But this has also, for the first time, made me very aware of the writer’s space.
Even as writers are completely involved with their subjects, they also need to have their own space that [...]

Movies I’ll be covering in the book

Here’s a list of the movies that I will be covering in the book on AK. Any comments are welcome.
The films have been chosen on the basis of their impact on Hindi cinema.
So, here I go with my list…
1. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
2. Raakh
3. Dil
4. Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin
5. Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander
6. Hum [...]

How the book got its name

I’d been thinking of a name for the book for sometime. But, most of the names I’d thought about got shot down by fellow strategists MR and NG.
Then, one morning when I was in the middle of meeting at work, my editor SK called. The book was going into the catalogue, and they needed to [...]

One step forward

The project brief has moved one step forward now. It’s on Aamir’s manager desk now. She’s also asked me to send across a copy of Ginger Soda Lemon Pop. So my first novel is becoming important in more ways than one, and may just end up being the deciding factor.
Meanwhile, Juhi’s office seem to be [...]

Project brief on the way

Sometimes something’s gotta give. That’s what happened over the last two day.
After the despondence of my last post, Aamir’s secretary messaged late in the night. She finally sent me an email ID to which I could send my project brief.
I ran over the proposal that I had created to interest Om Books in the idea [...]