In Love with Bollywood | A story of struggle and making it big in the city of dreams
Bejoy Chowdhury, known to everyone as Joy, carries an unusual origin story: his name was inspired by the characters that towering screen legend Amitesh Bhardwaj played across a string of hit films. Growing up, Joy's devotion to Bollywood, and to AB in particular, was less a hobby and more a way of life. So when AB announces he'll be hosting a brand-new game show with a three-crore jackpot on the line, Joy sees it as something close to fate. Never mind that he's freshly graduated, unemployed, and staring at a future with no obvious shape to it. He's going in. His family think it's foolish. His girlfriend isn't exactly cheering from the sidelines. Only his best friend Mo believes in him, steadily, stubbornly, through every unexpected twist the journey throws up. Sourabh Mukherjee writes with a warm, fizzing energy that captures both the intoxicating pull of popular cinema and the quieter anxieties of young adulthood. The story zips along, fuelled by comic mishaps and genuine heart, asking a question that's simple on the surface but surprisingly resonant underneath: can sheer belief carry a person somewhere real? It's a novel full of filmi colour and fond nostalgia, but it's also an honest, affectionate portrait of what it means to back yourself when almost nobody else will.
- Author: Sourabh Mukherjee
- Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
- Genre: Film & Cinema
- ISBN: 978-9364119184
- Pages: 160 pages