“The KING of the film jungle”
By
- Jyoti Sarup
This
novel is set in the present day, at Bombay {now known as Mumbai}, India.
It
is about a very rich and famous, Bollywood [Bombay film industry is known as
Bollywood], Director, Kirti Anand and his family and friends. It talks about his
life his childhood, and how he reached the dizzy heights of directorial success
through his ruthlessness and astute moves in the film industry. His
unprecedented rise to the top, making him the most sought after director in the
country, but in the process he had to pay a very price, he looses his wife and
the trust of his younger son. He nevertheless carries on even more ruthlessly
and with a vengeance like fury, to create one blockbuster after another.
He
is hated, loved, despised, admired feared and envied, but no one understands the
real man or is able to unmask what lies behind his suave exterior. He is known
as Egoistic, Drunkard, Womanizer, Corrupt and not a good Director, just lucky.
But he is a stickler for perfection and although his detractors called him
unscrupulous, little did they know that he works on his script and shots
meticulously. During his stint as assistant to famous directors, he learned all
there was to be learned specially, ‘What not to do’!
This
novel very minutely describes the various characters including the protagonist,
describing every movement, thought process, action, expression thoroughly,
creating a very interesting character study. Kuber, his elder son, who has just
arrived from US, after getting trained in film Acting, he understands his father
and supports him. Karan, his younger son, who hates the father for ditching his
mother. Rekha, his live-in mistress for five years, who is understanding and
undemanding, she has yearned secretly for marriage but remains content with what
ever little she got. His mother Vasudha, epitome of the Indian motherhood, who
is religious, god fearing and adores her son Kirti and grandsons.
Mohan
Shah, his closest buddy and best friend now his right hand man and PR
representative, astute and extremely intelligent and trust worthy. His sister
and her husband, Ranvir Sharma, the non-interfering, Government IAS officer, who
observes every thing, but keep his distance. The estranged wife Sangeeta fed up
with her husband’s flings, now devoting time in meditations. The throng of
relatives who horde around the great director for favors, the hundreds of stars,
divas and upcoming actresses who swirl around him for favors and many others.
In
the beginning of the novel, Kirti Anand is hurled down from the pinnacle of
success into the labyrinths of hell, because of his health. This incident
creates chaos, panic and commotion in the otherwise excited household, which was
all geared up to celebrate his 50th birthday, with hordes of
relatives amassed at his palatial house.
The golden boy of the movie industry finds himself in a helpless
situation where he becomes dependent on those around him for every little
action.
He
becomes a victim of fate, a fate that he had created by sowing bad causes, and
as his younger son Karan, a loyal to his mother, says, when his father falls
ill;
‘So
your KARMA has finally caught up with you, Dad’.
His
journey through the denizens of hell awakes him to the realities of life finds
his true friends and foes in the times of hardship. The curtains are finally
removed from his eyes and he is able to see people in their true color. A kind
of self transformation and self reformation takes place in him where he makes a
long journey into the deep recesses of his soul, and finally finding the true
meaning of world and life.
This
is not a make-believe novel with make-believe people. Those portrayed therein
are the people we know the feelings and emotions we read about, we feel and see
in our lives. The problems they face, the lives they lead are not far removed
from ours. Although the setting is the film world, the characters are very
humane. With a keen insight into Indian film world with its unsaid rules laid
out clearly for one and all. The author describes the Glittering lives of Stars,
their innermost thoughts and fears.
It is all about Kirti, his family, emotions,
romances, pride, cheating, selfishness, truths, mysteries, fights for supremacy,
arrogance, pride, love, ladies, Casanova image, ups and downs, surprises to his
friends, realization of truth in life, and finally his oneness with the universe
and mankind.
It has the traditional, rituals, and the
religious background of INDIA.
It is a story of a rich, lonely man on the top.
It is about the greed and achievements of a man.
It is about the materialistic life.
It is the search of peace in life and of one’s
soul.
This is a novel for every one who is ‘Alive’.
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