‘Unlikely Hero Om Puri’ By Nandita C. Puri

‘Unlikely Hero Om Puri’ By Nandita C. Puri

‘An Actor born with a wooden spoon’

About book:

     The book is a memoir of Om Puri dedicated by his wife Nandita Puri. The book describes the journey of Om Puri as a child, actor, husband and father. His hardships, perceptions about life, female associations, passion for acting and friends are distinctively described in the book. How a socially and financially feeble man makes into being awarded British award for his acting displays his remarkable journey of his audacity and professionalism.

Title:

The title of the book is well thought of as one of the person in NSD objected to his personality for being an actor. His unconvincing looks and unappealing personality never helped in making a first impression but his updated knowledge and near perfection acting skills always managed to attract people towards him.

Review:

This book provides you a detailed description of Om Puri‘s life journey as a person and an actor, though it seems like being one sided description of wife of her husband. The description of Om’s life has been a culmination of his 50 % hardship and 50% luck that made him an international acclaimed actor. Inspite of being born with wooden spoon and then an international performer, he was well connected to his roots and always made an effort to keep them intact in his family. The author has made an every endeavour to touch every corner of his life. Also the quotes and experiences of Om’s friends have been aptly inserted at required places.

Language:

The language of the book is understandable and connects you to the thread of his life’s journey very amicably. Nandita has tried her best to provide a descriptive detail of his account of personal and professional life.

Recommendations:

As this book very clearly describes how a passion to achieve something in life takes your test, it can be recommended to people who want to learn from the struggles of others life or by those prefer reading autobiographies. I would also like to add that any personality has positive and negative side to it , therefore it is must to have other perception of personalities as well and hence should read autobiographies written by author who is neutral and unknown to the personality.

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Dr. Gitanjali Kalia

A learner at heart with 13 years of experience and still growing. From field experience to academic ambience, people interaction and exploring new ideas have been my area of interest and has proved to be stepping stone towards my achievements. Creativity is my core skill, be that vision to see the world or to work towards something aesthetically, creativity exists in everything. I am an academician by profession and the creativity is my passion. Academician: Shifting from advertising field to teaching advertising wasn't in my dreams but I must say it is one of the most challenging and coolest profession altogether. What keeps it ticking is to be with Young minds!! I have written research papers and got by books chapters published in the international books by international publications . Poet: I am a poet and got my poems published by Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi in Kavya Lehri and Kavyanjali. I also have an ebook to my credit titled 'Lyrical Emotions'. Writer(Blogger): A writer who loves writing and has written for numerous magazines, online portals and newspapers like Time of India(Youth section), The Identity, Contemporary Vibes, The Higher education, etc. A Blogger who runs her own blog. An artist who works towards improving her skills every now and then. A traveller who knows learning is much more outside the classroom. As a leaner is never satisfied with his/ her work, I believe to utilize the gift of human birth to the fullest and enjoy.

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