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Combo Pack (Set Of 3 Books) : The Great Indian Tamasha – Adventures of A Wedding Planner | Who Wants To Marry Kai Juicewalla?: One life, Many loves, Endless (Mis) adventures | Irrfan: A Life in Movies
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Pan Macmillan | Om Books International
| Author:
Rasika Bhatia | Kainaz Jussawalla | Shubhra Gupta
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English
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1. The Great Indian Tamasha – Adventures of A Wedding Planner :-
Reception ho yah inflation…shaadiyaan toh honi hai.
The band, baaja, baraat have got louder. With destination weddings, experiential events, curated guestlists gaining popularity, the wedding planner has become a permanent fixture on the shaadi scene not just as the event organiser but as the friend, philosopher, and guide to the entire khandaan.
The Great Indian Tamasha makes us realize that saying yes to the proposal is probably the easiest part. As we immerse ourselves in the chaos of the stories laced with black humour, we are exposed to the dark underbelly of the weddings of the affluent and the influential. These weddings are more than just a glamorous return to traditions or celebration of new kinship bonds; they have come to epitomize conspicuous consumption and a show of strength.
Well-known wedding planner Rasika Bhatia’s incisive portrayal of spirited brides, hesitant grooms, controlling parents, greedy in-laws, fraudulent clients, and conniving competitors aptly depicts the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the modern big, fat Indian wedding that has indeed become a tamasha.
2. Who Wants To Marry Kai Juicewalla?: One life, Many loves, Endless (Mis) adventures :-
How many toads should a girl kiss before she finds her Prince Charming Kai Juicewalla. Foodie. Sucker for Shah Rukh Khan movies and everything about him. A romantic feminist (no, that is not an oxymoron). Parsi by birth, so crazy by right. Likes making rules but keeps forgetting them. Is unconventional in the most conventional sense. Has ample curves but still rough around the edges. And loves to exercise-her opinions only. Who Wants to Marry Kai Juicewalla is her racy, candid and juicy chronicle where she battles bullies, bulges and badmash company in a classy, sassy and bad assy way. An unending list of losers seems to be the bane of her life-a gold digger, a social climber, an unrequited love interest, an Italian Adonis, an identity thief (in the closet), a confused hot therapist, a raging narcissist. For this singleton, the global hunt for the perfect man always seems to crash and burn. Her life comes a full circle when she discovers the most important relationship of her life-her relationship with herself. This no-holds-barred assault on your funny bone upholds the universal truth that the journey is more important than the destination.
3. Irrfan: A Life in Movies :-
With an acting career spanning over three decades, Irrfan Khan has been acknowledged as one of the finest actors to grace the halls of contemporary Indian cinema. Always hungry for good work, he pushed himself to his limits to deliver spellbinding performances in movies like Maqbool (2003), The Namesake (2006), Life in a …Metro (2007), the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and the internationally acclaimed The Lunchbox (2013). He also featured in many commercially and critically successful films including Pan Singh Tomar (2012), which won him the National Film Award for Best Actor, Haider (2014), Piku (2015) and Hindi Medium (2017). Covering his National School of Drama days, to his nearly one-decade-long stint in television and his gradual ascent to a charismatic and much-lauded star in India and abroad, consummate film critic Shubhra Gupta offers a compelling account of Irrfan’s life and achievements. Drawing from interviews with key people Irrfan was close to, worked with, was influenced by – including Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Irrfan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar, Tillotama Shome, Irrfan’s best friend from the NSD Timangshu, Shoojit Sircar, Anurag Basu, Tabu, Anurag Kashyap, among many others – this book will be a collection of scintillating new interviews, with commentary from Shubhra herself, that will together offer a complex portrait of Irrfan the actor and the man.
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1. The Great Indian Tamasha – Adventures of A Wedding Planner :-
Reception ho yah inflation…shaadiyaan toh honi hai.
The band, baaja, baraat have got louder. With destination weddings, experiential events, curated guestlists gaining popularity, the wedding planner has become a permanent fixture on the shaadi scene not just as the event organiser but as the friend, philosopher, and guide to the entire khandaan.
The Great Indian Tamasha makes us realize that saying yes to the proposal is probably the easiest part. As we immerse ourselves in the chaos of the stories laced with black humour, we are exposed to the dark underbelly of the weddings of the affluent and the influential. These weddings are more than just a glamorous return to traditions or celebration of new kinship bonds; they have come to epitomize conspicuous consumption and a show of strength.
Well-known wedding planner Rasika Bhatia’s incisive portrayal of spirited brides, hesitant grooms, controlling parents, greedy in-laws, fraudulent clients, and conniving competitors aptly depicts the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the modern big, fat Indian wedding that has indeed become a tamasha.
2. Who Wants To Marry Kai Juicewalla?: One life, Many loves, Endless (Mis) adventures :-
How many toads should a girl kiss before she finds her Prince Charming Kai Juicewalla. Foodie. Sucker for Shah Rukh Khan movies and everything about him. A romantic feminist (no, that is not an oxymoron). Parsi by birth, so crazy by right. Likes making rules but keeps forgetting them. Is unconventional in the most conventional sense. Has ample curves but still rough around the edges. And loves to exercise-her opinions only. Who Wants to Marry Kai Juicewalla is her racy, candid and juicy chronicle where she battles bullies, bulges and badmash company in a classy, sassy and bad assy way. An unending list of losers seems to be the bane of her life-a gold digger, a social climber, an unrequited love interest, an Italian Adonis, an identity thief (in the closet), a confused hot therapist, a raging narcissist. For this singleton, the global hunt for the perfect man always seems to crash and burn. Her life comes a full circle when she discovers the most important relationship of her life-her relationship with herself. This no-holds-barred assault on your funny bone upholds the universal truth that the journey is more important than the destination.
3. Irrfan: A Life in Movies :-
With an acting career spanning over three decades, Irrfan Khan has been acknowledged as one of the finest actors to grace the halls of contemporary Indian cinema. Always hungry for good work, he pushed himself to his limits to deliver spellbinding performances in movies like Maqbool (2003), The Namesake (2006), Life in a …Metro (2007), the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and the internationally acclaimed The Lunchbox (2013). He also featured in many commercially and critically successful films including Pan Singh Tomar (2012), which won him the National Film Award for Best Actor, Haider (2014), Piku (2015) and Hindi Medium (2017). Covering his National School of Drama days, to his nearly one-decade-long stint in television and his gradual ascent to a charismatic and much-lauded star in India and abroad, consummate film critic Shubhra Gupta offers a compelling account of Irrfan’s life and achievements. Drawing from interviews with key people Irrfan was close to, worked with, was influenced by – including Mira Nair, Vishal Bharadwaj, Irrfan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar, Tillotama Shome, Irrfan’s best friend from the NSD Timangshu, Shoojit Sircar, Anurag Basu, Tabu, Anurag Kashyap, among many others – this book will be a collection of scintillating new interviews, with commentary from Shubhra herself, that will together offer a complex portrait of Irrfan the actor and the man.
About Author
Rasika Bhatia, a quintessential Delhi girl, calls herself a wedding planner by luck and a graphic designer by profession, has a degree in English literature. She strongly believes there are no shortcuts to hard work. And success is 80 per cent hard work and 20 per cent being at the right place at the right time. She has worked as a visual artist and a copywriter with Archies where she first got the opportunity to showcase her creativity before starting her own wedding designing and planning company twenty years ago. She started with a team of two talented people and slowly became a name to reckon with in the wedding industry. She has been a part of some bigwig weddings all over the country. She also got an opportunity to take on some international projects in the UAE and South-East Asia. She feels lucky to earn a living by following her passion.
Kainaz Jussawalla is the author of the bestselling novel Coffee Days, Champagne Nights and Other Secrets. A university topper from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, she has worked as a journalist with Magna Publications and the Times of India among others. Her storytelling ranges from bold and humorous to dark and edgy. A Reiki Master and a mental health activist, Kainaz has spoken at various forums, including AIIMS Delhi and Health First UK, on body positivity and self-acceptance. She has won awards, including the Shiksha Ratna, Asian Literary Society Award and the Fuzia Woman Influencer of the Year, for her contribution as a micro-influencer on social media. Kainaz hosts a celebrity chat show Break Free on her YouTube channel ‘Chai with Kai’. She is the founder of the social initiative ‘Be a Friend’ that supports, engages and entertains senior citizens. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Shubhra Gupta is film critic and columnist with the Indian Express. Reviewing and critiquing films, and writing on major trends emerging from Indian and international cinema, for over twenty years, she has joined the dots between how we watch our movies and live our lives. One of the most well-regarded, influential film critics in India, she has been a member of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), has travelled to film festivals around the globe and been part of several cinema juries. She received the Ramnath Goenka award for Best Writing on Cinema in 2012.
Kainaz Jussawalla is the author of the bestselling novel Coffee Days, Champagne Nights and Other Secrets. A university topper from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, she has worked as a journalist with Magna Publications and the Times of India among others. Her storytelling ranges from bold and humorous to dark and edgy. A Reiki Master and a mental health activist, Kainaz has spoken at various forums, including AIIMS Delhi and Health First UK, on body positivity and self-acceptance. She has won awards, including the Shiksha Ratna, Asian Literary Society Award and the Fuzia Woman Influencer of the Year, for her contribution as a micro-influencer on social media. Kainaz hosts a celebrity chat show Break Free on her YouTube channel ‘Chai with Kai’. She is the founder of the social initiative ‘Be a Friend’ that supports, engages and entertains senior citizens. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Shubhra Gupta is film critic and columnist with the Indian Express. Reviewing and critiquing films, and writing on major trends emerging from Indian and international cinema, for over twenty years, she has joined the dots between how we watch our movies and live our lives. One of the most well-regarded, influential film critics in India, she has been a member of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), has travelled to film festivals around the globe and been part of several cinema juries. She received the Ramnath Goenka award for Best Writing on Cinema in 2012.
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