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(From Indian Express)

My Years With Boss at Gemini StudioBy AshokamitranOrient LongmanPrice: Rs 110 THIS delightful collection of articles on Gemini Studio and its brilliant entrepreneur S.S. Vasan, where Tamil writer Ashokamitran worked for 14 years, leaves you with only one regret - it ends too soon. The author spent his years in Gemini scanning newspapers and magazines and affixing clippings ''under various heads like Aarey Milk Company or Zoroastrianism'' (he had to copy them out in long hand as he was not allowed to cut up the publications). In the meantime, he watched Vasan cut 14 hours of sloppy footage on Avvaiyar, a mega-project on the Tamil saint, into a tight blockbuster film, within a week. He watched an ill, sad Madhubala perform in Bahut Din Huwe and witnessed the Gemini production Insaniyaat (that had special role cut out for Zippy, the monkey, who had flown in from Hollywood) lose out to an unknown Satyajit Ray and his Pather Panchali in Kolkata. And he was there to watch the studio banner pale in comparison to the glitter of the stars, thus ending an era in Indian cinema. - Vidya Shivadas One Last MirrorBy Andrew HarveyPenguinPrice: Rs 200 IT is an unusual love story between 70-year-old Sri Lankan heiress Savitri ...