New Delhi: Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra's autobiography 'A Shot at History' will be adapted into a film with a US-based production house acquiring its movie rights.
Amit Bolakani, a New York-trained actor, found the book entertaining while being insightful and along with his business partners decided to acquire the rights.
"It's an inspiring Indian story that has cinematic appeal for a wider world audience. We are in process to determine a director for the project," said Bolakani who has trained with coaches who've worked with Anna Hathaway, Leonardo Di Caprio among others.
It was a tweet by actor Rahul Bose praising the book that sparked the idea to obtain rights for this book....
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03:19 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khans much-awaited autobiography is almost complete and he is currently working on an unfinished chapter on Kolkata. "I keep writing. The chapter that I havent written yet is on Kolkata. While working very hard on Jab Tak Hai Jaan, I got no time, but I will start writing," Khan, who is also the brand ambassador of the state, told reporters here. "I dont want anything to...
06:35 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Ace badminton player and current World No. 3 Saina Nehwal on Wednesday released her autobiography in Hyderabad titled, 'Playing to win, my life on and off court'. The world's third ranked player has written her autobiography in which she has revealed many of her secrets. The book has many incidents about Saina which are not in public domain. As most of the time Saina is busy playing in different...
01:27 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: AR Rahman was still a branded name before his Oscar win, but one man who was completely stranger to the common music lovers was the sound designer-editor Resul Pookutty, who suddenly became the talk of the town after Slumdog Millionaire won prizes for its sound department at the 81st Academy Awards. Sounding Off is publicized as an autobiography of a villager who one day finds himself on top...
06:28 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Five-time Olympic gold medallist Aussie swimmer Ian Thorpe talks about his depression and sexuality in his autobiography "This Is Me". ...
10:13 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Washington: The flight path taken by two American MH-47 Chinook helicopters to Abbottabad in Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden in May, 2011 has triggered a controversy with questions being raised as to whether they flew over the Indian air space. A just-published book, containing a first-hand account of the raid on the al Qaeda leader's hideout in the Pakistan garrison town near Islamabad, contains a map showing the flight...
08:48 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Mumbai: Onetime screen diva Saira Banu relishes the time she spent with her husband, the legendary Dilip Kumar, and doesn't regret her decision to cut down film projects after tying the knot. She says spending time with him was more important to her than anything else. There is almost a generational 22-year age gap between Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar, but Indian filmdom's highly regarded couple have enjoyed a blissful...
06:13 PM, Aug 27, 2012
"My earliest memory is that of my mother. It was late at night and I was fast asleep. They came and woke me up and dragged me downstairs. I must have been about four or five years-old then. I saw them crying and I looked at my mother lying there. She lay calm and still. As they were all crying, I too cried. That was the last time I saw...
05:21 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Cricketer Yuvraj Singh's memoir 'In Different Form', is scheduled to be published in December 2012 by Random House India. The publishers in a press release say the memoir will be an open, candid, intimate and remarkably personal account of his journey through cancer - from denial and acceptance, from his battle to defeat the disease to the struggles he still faces. For the first time Singh will tell, in his...
06:15 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Why should the Congress party be hitched to the Nehru-Gandhi family like train compartments to the engine was how the late PV Narasimha Rao reacted to the suggestion that Sonia Gandhi be made the Congress chief after the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi in May, 1991. This has been stated by veteran Congressman Arjun Singh in his soon-to-be-released posthumous autobiography, 'A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass...
01:05 PM, Jul 03, 2012
You could call it the former army chief's magnum opus, an autobiography running to nearly 400 pages. And like many soldier autobiographies, it's all about "naam, nishan, namak, dastur and izzat". There's a wealth of detail about his family, the army tradition (JJ is a third generation soldier), days in the NDA/IMA and the highlights of his army career. Interesting in parts, tedious elsewhere. The meat lies in the chapter...
03:24 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Former England wicketkeeper Paul Nixon mentions the businessman as 'K' in his autobiography 'Keeping Quiet'. ...
11:07 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: Ethics, morality and corruption are issues that are gaining more relevance particularly with regard to conduct of officers in higher ranks, says former army chief General (retd) Joginder Jaswant Singh in his autobiography. At a stripe-studded launch of his autobiography, "A Soldiers's General: An Autobiography " (Harper Collins), at the Hotel Imperial Saturday evening, the general said: "Five years ago, I decided to pen my life. Now I...
02:49 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil plans to write her autobiography after she retires in July. India's first woman president will be completing 50 years in public life this year and is contemplating to tell her story in a book, Rashtrapati Bhawan sources said. In 1962, young Patil had become for the first time a Congress MLA from Jalgaon city constituency of Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. After her speech at a...
12:58 PM, Apr 29, 2012
It is sometimes sad to know that readers (most of them) only remember Ismat Chughtai for 'Lihaaf' or 'The Quilt'. She has written a lot more and the 'more' is even more interesting than 'Lihaaf'. I remember the first time I was introduced to her works. I had turned twenty-three and my friend had taken me to watch a play, 'Manto Ismat Hazir Hain' produced by Motley, - which featured...
01:45 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Kolkata: Robbed of a home and a peaceful life, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen feels that religious fundamentalists apart, the responsibility for her sufferings lies on the "politicians of the Indian subcontinent" who have labelled her anti-Islam and banned her books. "When the government bans your book, then the fundamentalists are enthused. They feel inspired and take you as a soft target. They feel the government will side with them," Taslima...
07:49 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: The veteran actor will soon pen his autobiography and promises to be extremely candid about the facts of his life. Fast approaching his 60th birthday, in September, Rishi Kapoor is all set to pen his autobiography. And buzz is that three leading publishing houses are all vying to clinch the rights to this book. Apparently the actor has more or less already zeroed on the publisher he wants to...
01:35 PM, Feb 22, 2012
This will be the third but not necessarily the last stage in Julian Assange's attempts to resist extradition to Sweden. ...
09:02 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Brett Lee has come out with his autobiography 'My Life' in which he supports Harbhajan Singh against Andrew Symonds. ...
05:24 PM, Dec 25, 2011
London: The 'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs has finally apologised for the death of the train driver coshed in the infamous heist of 2.6 million pounds in the UK. Victim Jack Mills died in 1970, some seven years after the Great Train Robbery which was committed by a 15-member gang on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge in Britain. Biggs, now 82, who has never before shown remorse for...
02:54 PM, Nov 15, 2011
