A Flavour of the Book: “Aasha Rani had lost her balance and had fallen into the
drum; soaked to the skin, and spluttering for air. The mystery man had helped Aasha Rani out, a sardonic smile
playing on his lips. In her confusion she hadn’t noticed that her drenched
skirt had climbed up to her crotch.
Flushing and blushing furiously, she had pulled herself up muttering,
‘So sorry, so sorry.’ He’d stared
at her, looked down at her exposed legs, shrugged and walked away.”
The Authortrek View:
“Bollywood Nights portrays a surprisingly sleazy underworld behind the
more conservative image of Bollywood, in which the casting couch is much
employed, a world that seems to resemble the much more mucky backwaters of
Hollywood. No doubt this is the
main reason why the novel was such a huge hit when first published, as the
Indian literary world looks to be far more liberal than its cinema. This world, for all its sauciness, is
as gaudy and sickening as the novel’s back cover. At first, it is hard to identify with the heroine, Aasha Rani,
as she is pimped by her mother to be a success in the movies, and as Aasha
makes the most disastrous choices in her love life. Akshay Arora does not seem worthy of Aasha’s attentions as
he cruelly tosses her aside, but Aasha cannot help her feelings. However, Shobhaa De then does a very
clever thing by allowing Aasha some respite, some time to develop, and for a
while it seems that she has truly settled down. In reality though, Aasha just has more to lose, perhaps
maybe even her life… Shobhaa De
has expertly built the way to a killer ending for Bollywood Nights, a
novel that does truly satisfy in the end”.
From the Press:
"A throbbing,
pulsating novel of passion and pain, betrayal and bitterness"
Indian Review
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