Nawazuddin siddiqui biography book

I was not used to such attention, especially from the female kind. You are an actor? Gangs of Wasseypur? As you can probably guess from the titles of the films, this is a memory that happened way down the line when I had tasted the sweet nectar of success. We met there and hit it off. She came to Mumbai and began to live with me.

By then, Shamas and I had moved to Yari Road. Every few months, she kept extending her visa. It was a very sweet relationship. She was so lovely that the idea of marriage had begun to cross my mind, first in fleeting thoughts, and then slowly they turned into a decision. Her brother had just gotten a divorce. Perhaps that was why she was afraid of marriage.

I was bewildered. Without telling her, I dropped the idea of marriage altogether. The shooting of Miss Lovely commenced. Suzanne used to accompany me there. Then came the day when her visa expired and she needed to return to New York to sort it out. She was gone for many months. One day, while we were shooting a dance scene, something happened to my co-star Niharika Singh.

Something seemed to have happened to her. She was suddenly cold, went out of her way to maintain a distance from me and began to keep mum. I was puzzled. What was wrong with her? What had happened? She used to be friendly, social and talk quite a bit.

Nawazuddin siddiqui biography book

I thought it was best to ask her what had happened and so I did, not once, not twice, but several times, for several days. She responded that nothing had happened. I silenced my curiosity. I simply urged her to talk, be more social, that it was not healthy to be so quiet. After some days she began to. I invited her over for a home-cooked meal, a mutton dish which was my speciality.

She politely agreed and came over. The dish I had made for her turned out to be absolutely terrible. But she was too well mannered to say so. Not only did she eat everything that was on her plate, but she praised it as well. I rang the doorbell, slightly nervous. When she opened the door, revealing a glimpse of the house, I was speechless with amazement.

A hundred, or so it seemed, little candles flickered beautifully. She wore soft faux fur, looking devastatingly gorgeous, her beauty illuminated even more in the candlelight. And I, being the lusty village bumpkin that I am, scooped her up in my arms and headed straight for the bedroom. We made passionate love. And just like that, out of the blue, I began a relationship with Niharika Singh, a relationship which I did not know then would last for almost one and a half years.

During the early days I wanted to impress her. I was a struggler but by then I had managed to get a car, a second-hand one, but a car nevertheless. She lived in Malad, I lived in Yari Road. There was this time when she had to come to Yari Road for some work. I told her that I would fetch her in my car. I decked myself up in my best clothes, sprinkled cologne and drove off to her place with a song in my heart.

She sat inside, we nawazuddin siddiqui biography book off and bam! The book though is an anticlimax. Siddharrth Jain. If perhaps I am the only one who finds, Nawazuddin Siddiqui's memoir, an extremely cheap write-up, then so be it. Startled would be an understated word. And I can't even fathom the language used to highlight his countless debauch encounters.

Yes, he hails from a small town village in Uttar Pradesh and expectedly although unfortunate the 'Sadak Chaap' bearing. A satyromaniac sex-starvedNawaz talks about his crushes and his love affairs, to the extent of writing and I quote him ". To asking one of his batch mates, "Main aapke saath sex karna chahta hoon". His lack of sensitivity and word usage is absolutely obnoxious and vomit worthy.

What could have been a cracker of a book of an immensely talented Actor, is all sleazy. His struggle to reach this far is intriguing, but shame, it had to be written in such a way. No wonder the book has been withdrawn and Nawazuddin has issued an apology. Kelvin K. Nawasuddin is a brilliant actor His early days struggles - found that part as a nice read Mangesh Patankar.

Fast read and riveting Nawaz may hold his story about himself but the writer has made significant self contribution to the original story. This has made the book fast and interesting and good amount of credit goes to her. It was fascinating to read about the struggles of actors like Nawaz, Nasiruddin and such like. Successful people live to tell their version of story and I think that is how it should be.

If it is an ordinary life why waste the paper to publish this? If it isn't an ordinary life than that's just a loser doing virtue signaling with some modesty. Anyway, I'm curious enough to read it some time. Ankit garg. This is not a memoir Shailesh Jain. Truly inspiring. Nawazuddin's honesty in every line of this book will keep you hooked till the very end.

Humble suggestion to Nawaz Bhai, Rituparna Chatterjee and Penguin even if the book goes off the shelves : either you go all out with naming names, or you don't. Diptakirti Chaudhuri. Author 18 books 57 followers. If the book dwelt a bit more on Nawazuddin Siddiqui's process of performing his roles and a lot less on his inconsequential encounters with the many people he has met in his life, this book would have been an all-time classic.

Nawazuddin has a gift for describing situations. His co-writer, Rituparna Chatterjee, has a gift for putting them together in evocative language. Now, only if they decided to talk about his iconic roles a bit more! Suhel Banerjee. Stories of struggle in Mumbai of aspirants trying to get a toehold in Bollywood are a dime a dozen. What makes this ordinary life truly extraordinary are the magnitude of the struggle literally no money for any food for daysthe duration of it, the perseverance, and the payoff.

Nawaz' story starts in a village in UP - Budhana. Through the book you'll get several snippets and anecdotes of exactly how backward and remote an area he comes from in terms of the mentality and lack of exposure of the folks there. Mostly good intentioned, but seeped in orthodoxy and conservatism. Patriarchy, religious fanaticism, relegated status of women in the house and community, you name it and you will get flavours of it throughout.

Nawaz himself has plenty of similar streaks and he's accepted his many flaws as well, but the single minded focus and devotion towards his craft is the true hero of the story. Down and out to an extent most of us can't begin to imagine, he continued. For almost a decade he lived in abject poverty, ill treated by Bollywood, doing bit roles here and there, not even getting paid the piddly sums for those roles.

But he maintained his focus on doing the one thing, acting, which he knew he could excel in. Continuing to have that kind of confidence in oneself after years of rejection and failure is laudable. As a person he's got various shades of grey, especially where he describes his relationships, where he wasn't exactly the nawazuddin siddiqui biography book of virtue and I am not talking moralistically here.

As an actor and a disciple of acting however you can't question his commitment. Towards the end of the book where he talks about the difference between an actor and a superstar you are grateful that some people are still truly more passionate about the acting than the stardom. The maturity and transformation of Nawaz as a person also clearly comes across over the odd pages.

Recommended reading not only for Bollywood fans but anyone who likes a feel-good story, where you root for the underdog and he emerges victorious in a scale that's unthinkable. Prabhat sharma. Memoir is an inspiring book. Edit Profile. Your Subscription Plan. Renew Subscription. Manage Subscription. Saved Articles. My Reads. Sign out. World News.

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