It was indeed a delight for all the book lovers
in Mumbai who had come down to be part of the vibrant book launch event held during
the Ganpati week end which marked the Marathi book release titled “Ani Mug Ek Divas”. This Marathi book about
the legendary film, stage actor and director Mr. Naseeruddin Shah has been
successfully translated by the eminent director, screenwriter and prolific author
Padma Bhushan Awardee Ms. Sai Paranjpye. The book has been published by Popular Prakashan. The English version “And Then One Day” (A Memoir) penned down by Naseeruddin
Shah was released earlier in 2014.
It was all started one day when the author Sai
Paranjype received the phone call from this legendary actor Naseeruddin Shah
asking, “Sai I need to meet you. Let me
know what time suits you the best”. Sai was bit curious to know why Naseer
wants to meet her. Without asking anything Sai gave him the time and on the
said date and time Naseeruddin Shah came to meet her.
The journey to pen down the English version of
this book was never a planned activity and it started in the year 2002 when Mr.
Naseeruddin Shah had been to Prague the
largest city in Czech Republic for six month long shoot of a big budget
Hollywood Film namely, “The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen”. Apart from the shooting and with nothing else to do in city
like Prague where it gets dark too early Mr. Shah penned down the English
version of his autobiography mostly during shootings, post shootings or while waiting
for his next shot. It took him almost 12 years before the English version of
the book was released in 2014. In 2016 we now have the Marathi version of his
book well translated by the prolific writer Ms. Sai Paranjpye.
During the course of this book translation Sai
realized that Naseeruddin had fascination for English words depicting his good
hold on the language and words which were mostly unheard or those that were not
used in regular conversations. Sai used to make note of all such words where
she had difficulty in translating them. And, instead of calling Naseeruddin
daily she used to make note of these words as observations. Once her work was
completed they both met again that’s when she cleared all her observations to
get the meaning of the words and sentences right.
No doubt while in school Naseeruddin always
excelled and got the highest marks and won awards in English literature whereas
getting good grades in Maths or Physics used to be a distant dream for him. He
remembers getting either 0 or 5 marks in these subjects. His father aspired him
to become a Doctor. As the book states
while in school Naseeruddin had good observational skills. He used to listen to
his teachers intonations, the way they dressed or the way they wiped the
blackboard. These things used to appeal him more rather than what subject was
the teacher trying to teach to the class and conveying.
Readers must be wondering now having written
his autobiography what’s the next book title Naseeruddin would like to work
upon. Would it be a sequel to this first one? No. On the contrary what
Naseeruddin would like to do is to pen portrait of how he has seen and
experienced his association with the Film Industry from close angle in the 40
years of his glorious journey. A topic which he feels might be interesting to
him but must be disappointing to many others.
Book Title आणि मग एक दिवस
Publisher Popular Prakashan
Author Naseeruddin
Shah
Translated By Sai
Paranjpye
ISBN 978-81-7185-086-0
Price Rs
650 / -
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