Book excerpt: How Anupam Kher overcame the odds to make his passion project ‘Tanvi the Great’

January is the month for the unboxing of the New Year. Everyone, with renewed excitement, is in the mood to make resolutions, ranging from the most mundane to the most monumental ones. I had already made mine more than a year back, and now I was all set to live up to it in the year 2024. This is why, to me, this New Year looked newer than any of the New Years I had welcomed in the last two decades, at least. Of course, I had a great reason to be partial towards this New Year—because the shooting of my dream, Tanvi the Great, was about to commence in the next month! 2024 was indeed a leap year for me, in more ways than one.

I returned from Delhi on New Year’s Eve with the script draft file saved as ‘TTG-Final-Final’ on my iPad. And that file name pretty much said it all! Once in Mumbai, I was in marathon meetings with my direction team associates and other department heads, while typing or recording some three to four thousand ‘Same to you’ New Year messages on the side.

There was more exuberance than blood in my veins. Prep work was going on with the greatest...

Read more

News