Sanjeev Kumar- The Actor We All Loved Book Released

The biography, launched on the late actor’s 84th delivery anniversary on Saturday.

’He was a pure; some of the highly effective actors.’  —Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, 2014-present day

When Oscar successful filmmaker Satyajit Ray determined to make his first Hindi film- he needed to forged two people- Sir. Richard Attenborough and Sanjeev Kumar. Ray’s 1977 movie titled ‘The Chess gamers’ is ready in nineteenth century Lucknow. Two lazy noblemen are foolishly obsessive about chess even because the British wish to usurp their territory. Such was the ability of Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey’s efficiency and Ray’s route, that the movie turned India’s official entry to the 51st Academy Awards for greatest International Language Movie.

The movie was obtained and reviewed globally. It is among the ‘Forty Movies that Martin Scorsese needs you to see.’ In 1989, Faber London printed a e-book ‘The Chess Gamers and Different Screenplays.” On the quilt of the e-book are Sanjeev Kumar and co-actor Saeed Jaffrey. Sanjeev Kumar is an actor who shone throughout genres- comedy, tragedy, romance and drama. His movies stay everlasting favourites of ardent cinema loves internationally.

Sanjeev Kumar was some of the highly effective actors of the Seventies – the golden period of Hindi cinema.He was each director’s fail-safe artiste. When he entered the body, the viewers would sigh with reduction, ‘Nothing can go flawed now!’ 

Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Uday Jariwala have co-authored this crucial biography of historic significance within the annals of Indian cinema. The e-book traverses his life from 1938 to 1985 and guarantees to be an intensive entertainer. 

It takes us by Sanjeev Kumar’s journey to turning into one of many biggest actors Bollywood has seen, with private essays by his pals and main Bollywood names together with Gulzar, Randhir Kapoor, and co-stars Sharmila Tagore, Moushmi Chatterjee, Tanuja, amongst others.

Sanjeev Kumar was the antithesis of the standard Bollywood hero doing romance and motion. Not one to crave glamorous roles, he was extra eager about versatility. From his mature roles in movies like Mausam and Aandhi (banned by the Indian Authorities through the emergency), to his comedian timing in Angoor or the angst of individual with disabilities in Koshish—he was really a pondering man’s actor. His expressive face, inflections and pauses, pure ease for lip-syncing, all of it made him the entire package deal.

Commenting on her expertise of narrating Sanjeev Kumar’s life story, co-author Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta feedback ‘It took me 4 years, a number of interviews with over 25 contributors, poring over 800 journal articles in 5 languages to jot down this e-book. Sanjeev Kumar was a type of uncommon performers who ‘turned the character’, as a substitute of enjoying it and his Nationwide Awards show it. The e-book chronicles his rags-to-riches story, his motivations, his fears and his God-gifted expertise. Readers will really feel that they’re in the identical room as Sanjeev Kumar- understanding his life firsthand. It’s an entertaining learn and a prep for aspiring actors, .”

Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor says, “We should all have fun ninth July, Sanjeev Kumar’s birthday. All of us actors are impressed by him, particularly the reasonable performing which sanjeev Kumar purchased to the theater and to indian cinema. He was certainly Grasp of his Craft and a deal with for all senses. What he has achieved in a brief span of his profession -I’ve no phrases to specific. This e-book by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta will deliver his films alive once more. Lovers of cinema will at all times keep in mind every efficiency of his. He’s the rationale I am right here after which purpose We may produced Hum paanch & I may act in Woh Saath Din.”

Co-author Uday Jariwala says, “I nonetheless do not forget that for a really very long time after Sanjeev dada’s demise, each time the door opened, I believed it was him coming into the home. He would cuddle me and play with me. He left a vacuum in our lives that we are able to by no means fill. My household and I are excited to current Sanjeev Kumar: The Actor We All Cherished. This e-book is a labour of affection and it has taken us virtually 4 years to finish. It’s an genuine illustration of his life. For the primary time, his followers will get to know him up shut as he actually was.”

Concerning the Authors

Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta is a prolific biographer, reviewer for CNBC TV18, and a bibliophile. She is credited with the acclaimed Purple Dot Experiment, a ten-year-long and six-nation examine on how tradition impacts communication.  A polyglot, she speaks 5 languages. That is Reeta’s third e-book. In 2018, she wrote ‘Rescript Your Life’, a self-help autobiographical narrative and in 2021, she wrote ‘The Stranger Within the Mirror’ the biography of BAFTA nominated film-maker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.

Uday Jariwala is the nephew and inheritor to the legacy of Sanjeev Kumar. He runs the Sanjeev Kumar Basis, an NGO that works in the direction of the promotion of theatre, artwork and schooling. He’s a businessman and lives in Mumbai together with his spouse Neelam and their two youngsters, Aryan and Saachi.