Shah Rukh Khan arrived in Hindi cinema without a film family behind him and ended up defining stardom for a generation.
Mohar Basu's biography tracks that trajectory from television work in the late 1980s through the films that built the persona, the production company, the reinventions and the global audience that followed. Basu writes as an entertainment journalist, which shows in the attention paid to industry context: how casting worked, how the economics of Hindi cinema shifted, and what an outsider had to do to get inside the system. The result reads as career study as much as life story. Hachette publishes this edition.
For the curious buyer:
• A career followed from television work to international recognition
• Industry context on casting, economics and the studio system
• Attention to the reinventions that kept the career moving
• Written from a working entertainment journalist's vantage point
Film enthusiasts, followers of Hindi cinema and readers of show-business biography will find Mohar Basu's account substantial, and the Hachette edition is stocked at Boipoka.