About the Book: Matinee Men Demy
Do you know that the horror movie Mahal (1949) grew out of an eerie experience
actor Ashok Kumar had during an overnight stay at a resort? That a nervous Yusuf
Khan learnt of his screen name Dilip Kumar only from the promotions of his debut
film? Or that first-time director Aditya Chopra had to fool Shah Rukh Khan into
agreeing to a story narration by telling him that DDLJ (1995) was actually an
action film! An actor lives a hundred lives. He takes on the persona of a
stranger and becomes him. He wakes up every morning, wears a