I’ll Do It My Way: In Response to the Response

When I chose to write a book on Aamir Khan, I always knew it would be controversial. Not simply because he is an actor whose work has impacted Hindi cinema, but because he always seems to evoke two extreme responses – adulation or extreme dislike (on the belief that his work is overrated and his [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Chahta [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Update on the book…

I’ve been away from my blog for awhile, but that’s mainly bacause I have been working on the different twists and the turns that the writing of this book has taken. Most of the key interviews on the book have been finished now, as has the writing of important chapters. I am now waiting for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]