Nothing cinema in Bollywood director Mansoor Khan's first book

Director-producer Mansoor Khan, famed for giving blockbuster Hindi cinema musicals dropped off the cinema radar, to surface recently as an author whose first book speaks of concepts of economics and the role of energy.
Khan, known for cinematic hits like "Qayamat se Qayamat Tak" and "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander", has in his first book titled "The Third Curve: The End of Growth as we know it" dealt with economic growth thorough the prism of oil and energy and looks at possibilities to a world where communities transition to a primary local lifestyle.
"My life started to change in the year 1997 when the government wanted to acquire my father's land. I started reading up and researching on the rights of people and the natural resources available and then came across the concept of Peak Oil. It made sense to me immediately," Khan told PTI after the launch of his book here recently.

A term coined by US geologist M King Hubbert, "Peak oil", is used to signify the problem of depletion, of the world's production of oil which is a finite, non-renewable resource, that has powered economic and population growth in the past.
The American predicted that the rate of oil production in the world will follow in the path of bell shaped curve curve and after hitting a "peak" will fall at a terminal rate, bringing to an end the availability of cheap oil. This, he said would result in severe economic and social consequences.
Mansoor Khan, says he read many books and blogs and opinions of experts on the subject helped him form his own understanding of the subject.

"Many people say there are now alternative sources of energy to oil like solar energy and wind energy etc. But what they fail to understand is that the resources of the earth are finite and you cannot run an infinite economic model of growth based on the reality of a finite planet," says Khan.