STRANGER IN THE MIRROR  (English, Hardcover, Mehra Rakeysh Omprakash)

RAKEYSH OMPRAKASH MEHRA- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra occupies a reverent mihrab of his own in the annals of Indian filmmaking. After working on almost 200 advertising films and a documentary, he found his calling on the big screen.His cinema is honest, powerful and holds a mirror to society. His unsentimentally crafted portraits of conflicts inside our own culture, the demonic behaviour of humans possessed by communal hatred, the inherent imperfections that humanize super-achievers, have always been ahead of their time.His brand of socially conscious, progressive filmmaking has its own signature. His work is archetypal, socio-political and philosophical, spawning genres such as sports biopics and youth-oriented cinema.As a director, writer and producer, with a yen for timeless music, he established Flicks: The Motion Picture Company in 1987, which grew into Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures in the year 2004.He is married to P.S. Bharathi. They have a daughter, Bhairavi, and a son, Vedant.| REETA RAMAMURTHY GUPTA- Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta hails from the marketing world and applies her vast knowledge of connecting with audiences to her writing. Her ability to bring pages alive with a lexical diversity that assimilates cultures and timelines and gripping parenthetical narratives has created a unique imprint in Indian writing in English. She is credited with the internationally acclaimed Red Dot Experiment, a decadal six-nation study on how �culture impacts communication.� Her previous book, Rescript Your Life, was published by Rupa Publications. She is married and has two children.