Kushi café
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It took all of Akansha's persuasive power to jolly her out of that mood and get her to forget it. So angry was she Jenny that she refused to go for an audition scheduled for the next week with UFCL productions. "It's a new director again" she told Akansha. "No established director will touch us and even these new chaps actually just want to hob nob with the established heroines, they don't actually want us but they have no choice God knows what the compulsion is but they just have auditions to reject people. Forget it, when I have so many offers from the south why the hell should I care for these idiots?" she stated emphatically. "you know what, if you wish why don't you go give it a shot? I'll tell Namit to talk to them." "Really?" said Akansha. "you don't mind? I mean..." "Not a bit" replied Jenny "I'll just have this instinct about things; I get the feeling this is not going happen for me, also the director has so far done only documentaries, not my cup of tea at all." After the outburst, Jenny took the first offer that came from Hyderabad. "Wish me Luck" she told Akansha "it's a small budget film, but hey, I get to be heroine" she said gleefully. "Well, good luck and you are going to have to wish me as well cause I'm off to met Sunny Datta, the documentary film chap you put me on to...the assistant I spoke to told me to come for the audition" said Akansha. Jenny rolled her eyes. "Ah well, you are really going to need the luck and my sympathies too. In these types of films you might probably end up wearing Kantabai's sarees, be bare foot..."
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About the Book
Set in the glamorous world of Bollywood, Kushi Café’s cuisine is a heady mix of ambition, office politics, intrigues, and intricate relationships. Akansha persuades her mother to allow her to leave their small town and go work as a shop assistant in Mumbai while she secretly has plans of becoming an actress and perhaps meeting her heartthrob, Mega Star Aslam Khan. All Deep wants to do is to be just like his father and join the police force. But fate has other plans for him, and he finds himself thrust into the center of the entertainment industry. Clever and ambitious Parvez, the head of UFCL, a successful film production house, is a powerful presence in the industry and is always one step ahead of his crafty competitor Dheeraj, who was his former employee. Namit and Jivan try to maintain the flimsy foothold that they have managed to gain in the Hindi film industry. Rolls appears far too laid-back to survive the cutthroat competition while Jenny wants to move on and is determined to leave her past behind. It’s the book to curl up with on a lazy Sunday afternoon with a hot cappuccino or cold frappé. The Kushi Café beckons with its eclectic clientele and cozy ambiance.
About the Author
Meera Vigraham had started off as a commercial artist in an advertising agency and later joined a Computer Graphics studio that made graphics heavy TV commercials in Mumbai in early 90s' as an animator. She moved on to feature film VFX in the same studio. She later turned freelancer and executed several vfx projects for other facilities, including a few from Germany. She is also associated as a with Spellbound Productions, a company that earlier executed TVCs, Music Videos, and now engaged in Bollywood feature film production. Being involved in the Bollywood film industry, she has been closely associated with several professionals and has an insight into the workings of the industry. She used to frequent a café at Yari Road around which a lot of auditioning studios and film production studios are located. It was while sitting here that the idea of Kushi Café was born. The café's clientele are largely those involved in the entertainment business - writers, actors, technicians. Much of the book has been written while sitting at the café and most of the characters were inspired by regulars at the café, and some by people whom she interacted with at work.