Title: "King of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan and the seductive world of Indian cinema";
Author: Anupama Chopra;
Publisher: Warner Books

Here is the astonishing true story of Bollywood, a sweeping portrait

about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed

the face of India, and one man's struggle to become a star. Shah Rukh

Khan's larger than life tale takes us through the colorful and

idiosyncratic Bollywood movie industry, where fantastic dreams and

outrageous obsessions share the spotlight with extortion, murder, and

corruption. Shah Rukh Khan broke into this $1.5 billion business

despite the fact that it has always been controlled by a handful of

legendary film families and sometimes funded by black market money. As

a Muslim in a Hindu majority nation, exulting in classic Indian

cultural values, Shah Rukh Khan has come to embody the aspirations and

contradictions of a complicated culture tumbling headlong into

American style capitalism. His story is the mirror to view the greater

Indian story and the underbelly of the culture of Bollywood.

Bollywood produces as many as 200 films a year at reach 3.6 billion

people. Shah Rukh Khan has been the #1 Bollywood star for the past 14

years.

About Anupama Chopra

Anupama Chopra is a film critic and book author. She has written about

the Hindi film industry since 1993. Her work has been published

extensively in India Today, India's largest English language magazine.

She has also written about Bollywood for various international

publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,

Variety and Sight & Sound. Currently, Anupama presents and scripts a

weekly film review show called Picture This on NDTV, a leading Indian

news channel.

Anupama's most recent book, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge ("The

Bravehearted Will Take the Bride"), was published by the British Film

Institute in 2002, as part of their Modern Classics Series. Anupama's

first book, Sholay: The Making of a Classic, was published by

Penguin-India in 2000. It won the prestigious National Award (given by

the President of India) for the Best Book on Cinema.

Anupama has an insider's knowledge of Bollywood. Her husband Vidhu

 Vinod Chopra is a leading filmmaker. In 1979, he won an Oscar nomination for his

documentary, An Encounter with Faces. Her sister Tanuja Chandra, is one

 of the few women directors in Bollywood. Her mother, Kamna Chandra, is a scriptwriter and her brother, Vikram Chandra, is an award-winning novelist who has also written Hindi film scripts. Anupama received an MA in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She received top honors at Medill, winning the Harrington Award for "academic excellence and promise for success in the field of magazine journalism." She has a BA in English literature from Bombay University. She was awarded the Dwarkanath Purshotham Gold Medal for academic excellence by the university.Anupama lives in Mumbai and Michigan.

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