| This is the first book to explore the films of the acclaimed director. A unique voice in cinema today, Nair is one of the few women to have made it to the top of a male-dominated profession. Her films feature a sensuous visual style yet also record the injustice of the disenfranchised and the cross-pollination of East and West. |
| In this book, noted film authority John Kenneth Muir analyses all of Nair's work, including her breakthrough film Salaam Bombay!, about a young boy abandoned by his family on the streets of Bombay, Mississippi Masala, the celebrated Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair, with a "sneak peek" at her latest work The Namesake, based on the Jhumpa Lahiri novel. |
| TAZ Dawood Ali McCallum Penguin Books India Rs 295 320 pages |
| Mumbai-based telecaster Taz Dhar receives a letter written by a stranger moments before his execution in some dank, dirty and cruel prison somewhere in the world. The writer of the message appears to bear the improbable name: Armitage Shanks. |
| Who was Shanks? Where did he die? And why was he put to death? As Taz pursues the answers, compelled by a journalist's clinical compassion, she is drawn into a world where few people are what they seem. |
| Threatened but resolute, she is on a collision course with an all-powerful and unforgiving state unable to distinguish between dissent and terrorism. |
| By the author of the historical novel The Lords of Alijah, this story crosses four continents in a bleak world where those considered a threat to the even order of things can be spirited across borders and lost forever. |
| SALAM, PARIS: A NOVEL Kavita Daswani Penguin Books India Rs 225 224 pages |
| Tanaya Shah longs for the wonderful world of Paris, the world that she fell in love with while watching Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina "" and so when a proposal comes along for an arranged marriage with a man who is living in Paris, Tanaya seizes the chance. |
| But once she lands in the city, she shuns the match. A stroke of luck turns Tanaya into a supermodel, and soon this traditional girl is cavorting with rock stars and is disowned by her family. |
| In her new whirlwind life, she is reintroduced to the man she was supposed to marry, the man she now realises she should have never walked away from, and who is her only connection to the family she longs to reconcile with. |
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