Title : Night in the Stars - Shobhaa Dé - Book
Summary :
Having come from South India to Bombay to become an actress, the ravishing Aasha Rani is now seeing her star shine brightly in the Bollywood sky. A beloved movie star, her journey began under rather sordid circumstances: a famous film producer in Madras, her father left his family for a Lolita, abandoning his two daughters in the hands of their mother, an ambitious and scheming woman. It didn't take long for her to push Aasha, then barely fifteen years old, into the beds of various producers, distributors, and influential actors, hoping to land her the role that would launch her career. How could the young girl, indeed, be an exception to the rule that in India—where movie stars are venerated like veritable gods—countless young people dream of entering the Bollywood pantheon? Unfortunately for her, after having gloriously crossed the threshold of a false kingdom as coveted as it is cruel to its subjects, Aasha makes the tragic mistake of falling in love...
Through the moving story of a young woman, Night Among the Stars reveals the brutal reality that often lies behind the ostentatious luxury of Indian cinema, populated by unsavory individuals - even the heroine's own sister, who, jealous of her elder sister's success, sets out to become her worst enemy...
An invitation to enter behind the scenes of a world governed by ambition and corruption, this novel, illuminated by the character of a young woman struggling to try, in the face of adversity, to remain herself and preserve her share of innocence and freedom, transforms, at the pace of a captivating story, into a subversive denunciation of the destructive mythologies that govern the contemporary world.
- EAN: 9782742789573
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