My heart was bleeding."Īnother part that I noticed while I was browsing it and stayed to read, was the phone call that the actor made to writer R K Narayan, requesting the rights to make The Guide, which eventually ofcourse, turned out to be one of the highlights in the actor's career.Ĭlearly, the first 200 pages or so of this book are extremely readable and abound in many interesting anecdotes. A couple of days earlier, a rumour had been floating around that Zeenat had gone to Raj's studio for a screen test for the main role in his movie. He says, "A hint of suspicion crossed my mind. I for one, was quickly drawn to pages in the middle where he talks about how he fell in love his protegee Zeenat Aman and was jealous when Raj Kapoor 'made advances' and took her on for Satyam Shivam Sundaram. The fun part of this book is that it doesn't necessarily require you to read it in sequence. How else do you explain the fact that the book has the exact trajectory for his career- from delightful to delusional? Love or hate this book by Dev Anand but if there's one thing going for it, it is the fact that, unlike most autobiographies that are ghost-written, this one is, without a shred of doubt, penned by the man himself.
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