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Journalist and writer Narayani Ganesh has written candidly about her iconic father in her heart-warming book, Eternal Romantic- My Father, Gemini Ganesan (Roli  Books) and talks to Humra  Quraishi about it.

I’m  no film buff, yet I enjoyed reading Narayani Ganesh’s book on her  father, the legendary Tamil actor  Gemini  Ganesan…so  much so, I flowed with the words and was rivetted by those rare  pictures of the man. No doubt he was stunningly good looking but  for  creatures like me there has to be more to an actor than just sex appeal! It is a good thing then that he comes across as candid soul with that old world charm hovering around. Also, I  love men who have the grit to take on intense relationships to the logical conclusion – marriage.

Yes, Ganesan married not once but thrice! His first  wife, TR Alamelu (popularly called Bobjima) seemed apparently  comfortable with Pushpavalli and Savithri, and also  with their children!And so seem his children, in fact, film star Rekha, daughter of  Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, is also spotted in several  pictures tucked in the pages of this volume.

Credit goes to Narayani for putting some stark details in this book she’s written on her father and the times he’d lived, worked in. No, its not a typical biography and definitely not a bunch of essays. As Narayani explains,“I wouldn’t call the book a biography in that sense. The writing is personal, anecdotal as well as from the writer’s perspective and in the process, it also serves as a kind of emotional biography, if you would like to call it that; but certainly not a detailed historical biography as we understand the term to mean in the conventional sense.”

I asked Narayani the very obvious question – was she or  her  siblings  ever  hurt /embarrassed  by  her father’s  rather colourful personality?  And she answered, “When we were children, the information flow was very limited. We had neither television n

Eurekha!: The Intimate Life Story of Rekha is a 1999 Indian biographical book by Mohan Deep, detailing the life of the Indian film actress Rekha. The book describes her birth to South Indian actors Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, her well-publicised marriage to the Delhi-based industrialist Mukesh Agarwal, who died by suicide in seventh months of marriage, and her career. It was published on 17 December 1999 by Shivani Publications and received negative critical reviews.

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Eurekha!: The Intimate Life Story of Rekha was written by the columnist-turned-author Mohan Deep. The word eurekha from its title was suggested by his friend, the journalist Chaitanya Padukane, who recommended him to combine the subject's name Rekha and the word eureka. It was published on 17 December 1999 by Shivani Publications in English and reprinted in Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati; it was later serialized in the Bengali-language magazine Anandalok. An unathorized biography, the book faced controversy after Rekha admitted that she was angry at Deep for chronicling her life without her permission. She added that most of the book's information were false.

Critics gave scathing reviews to the book and questioned about why Deep want to write a biography about a living person, while his two previous book The Mystery and Mystique of Madhubala (1996) and Simply Scandalous: Meena Kumari (1999) chronicle the life of dead people. The Afternoon Despatch & Courier described Eurekha!: The Intimate Life Story of Rekha as "an arrogant, crude example of how a woman, who happens to be a film star, can be victimised and exploited even while she lives". The reviewer said that it "deserved to be condemned, banned and burnt". Mid Day expressed similar thoughts, writing that Depp failed to neutrally explain Rekha's life and career.

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Indian actress (born 1973)

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (pronounced[ɛːʃʋəɾjᵊɾɑːjˈbətːʃən]; néeRai; born 1 November 1973) is an Indian actress who is primarily known for her work in Hindi and Tamil films. Rai won the Miss World 1994 pageant and later established herself as one of the most-popular and influential celebrities in India. She has received numerous accolades for her acting, including two Filmfare Awards. In 2004, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2009, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri and in 2012, the Government of France awarded her with the Order of Arts and Letters. She has often been called "the most beautiful woman in the world" by segments of the media.

While in college, Rai modelled and appeared in several television commercials, and entered the Miss India pageant, in which she was placed second. She was then crowned Miss World 1994, made her acting debut in Mani Ratnam's 1997 Tamil film Iruvar and had her Hindi film debut in Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya that year. Her first commercial success was the Tamil romantic drama Jeans (1998), which at the time was the most expensive Indian film. She achieved wider success and won two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress for her performances in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's romantic dramas Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002).

Rai garnered critical appreciation for portraying a passionate artist in Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000), a seductive widow in Chokher Bali (2003), an unhappily married woman in Raincoat (2004), Kiranjit Ahluwalia in Provoked (2006), and a nurse in Bhansali's Guzaarish (2010). Her greatest commercial successes have been the romantic dramas Mohabbatein (2000) and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016), the adventure film Dhoom 2 (2006), the biographical drama Guru (2007), the science-fiction film Enthiran (2010), and the period films Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Ponniyin S