Reading as a hobby has slowly and surely re-ignited in me. If I look back over past 1 year of my life - various circumstances have brought me closer to books. I enjoy reading them and even anticipate reading them. I often browse Amazon.com for interesting titles and came across this book. It attracted my attention specially thanks to its unique title. The book description said the book is about a foreigner's life in the streets of Mumbai. Mumbai still being my favorite city - this single fact was more than enough for me to order it. When I got the book in mail, I was kinda disappointed looking at its size. Its a huge huge book - almost 950 pages and as a I result I procrastinated reading it for a while. But finally I started reading it and once I started reading it - I never wanted to stop. Its a very intruiging book. Most important of all, the story has traced the current events of 1980s Mumbai and India vert effectively.
I am not writing a review on the book as I simply love this book and I don't think I can be objective about it. So all those who are reading this - all I can say - simply get hold of this one and read it from start to end. I promise you will love it and you might as well fall in love with Mumbai - all over again - like in my case :).
A movie is in the making based on this movie. Johnny Depp has the rights and movie was slated for a 2009 release but its delayed due to ongoing economical crunch. Mira Nair was supposed to direct it but she is not any more. Amitabh Bacchan was slated to play a very important part but even that looks very unlikely at this juncture. But still, assuming that the movie is made on it - I am going to list the actors - according to me - who should play various characters in this movie. So here I go. Enjoy :)....
Lin - Johnny Depp or Christian Bale
Karla - Natalie Portman
Prabhakar - Irrfan Khan
Abdul Khader Khan - Boman Irani
Abdullah Taheri - Abhishek Bacchan
Vikram - Saif Ali Khan
Madam Zhou - Meryl Streep
Johnny Cigar - Rajpal Yadav
Nazeer - Sunil Shetty
Khaled Ansari - Paresh Rawal
Abdul Ghani - Gulshan Grover
Salman Mastaan - Rahul Bose
Sanjay - Jimmy Shergil
There are several other important characters but I haven't gone that far in my imagination. Looking forward to the real movieto come out soon.
Cheers!!!
