Book Review: Prem Naam Hai Mera, Prem Chopra by Rakita Nanda
I’ll keep this review short.
A
biography or an autobiography is a curated depiction of someone’s real life. And
this is Indian actor and famous Bollywood villain Prem Chopra’s badly written and sycophantic biography.
While ‘Prem
Naam Hai Mera, Prem Chopra’ is written by Prem Chopra’s daughter Rakita Nanda,
the story follows first person narrative. I wonder if the book was such a
sanitized version of his life because his daughter has written it.
Two
things are drilled into the reader’s mind. First, that he was a very handsome
man, implying that he had every potential to become a hero rather than a
villain. Second, that he is a very good human being, implying that his
on-screen persona is in stark contrast to his off-screen persona.
There
are too many fillers in this book. Pages and pages are filled with the list of
Prem Chopra’s films with detailed description of the movie plots, his best roles
and his famous dialogues. Wikipedia does an excellent job in educating about
movie plots and characters. There was no need to include it in the book in such
detail. I skipped through a lot of pages, which I very rarely do.
Few of
the interesting bits were his early years, anecdotes about the first few years
in Mumbai when he used to work with the Times of India and the impact of his
villainous image on his personal life.
I suggest that you either buy a second-hand copy or borrow it from a library or read it
for free on Kindle with the Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription, like I did
(not an endorsement).
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Title: Prem
Naam Hai Mera, Prem Chopra
Author:
Rakita Nanda
Publication:
2014
Language:
English
Pages:
248
Rating:
2/5
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