How did the book come about?
The 62 years of my working, creative life are full of special and precious memories of people and events...
I was here in New York some years ago when Baghdad was attacked by the US. I saw television channels showing people being killed and I started thinking of India's independence struggle and those who were killed fighting for it... my mind went back to the past and to my own memories, and that's when I decided to write a book.
I wrote every word in my own hand. I didn't type it out, and I didn't have a ghost writer. Writing a book is an epic project, like making a film...
It took you fairly long time to finish it...
I began writing the book and then put it on hold for a while. Then my publishers urged that I finish it, so I put two of my film projects on hold and completed the book. It is a truthful and honest effort. It is my story... it is Dev Anand's story, a story that has never been told before.
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