"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
On Camera Off Camera—Pages from the Past captures the euphoria and the angst of those behind the scenes and those in front of the camera, their craft, their processes of creativity and their personal highs and lows. The life of a scribe is a never-ending journey of insights, her mind is forever racing from the back-lanes of the past into the by-lanes of the present, observing, joining the dots. Sometimes, the puzzle pieces fall into place; sometimes, the intrigue persists but the process of unravelling is fascinating.
Bhawana Somaaya
Bhawana Somaaya has been a film critic for over forty years. She is the former editor of Screen and has authored several books, a winning majority on cinema including biographies of Hema Malini and Amitabh Bachchan.
Her books are a point of reference for students studying cinema at the Whistling Woods, Manipal University and now JNU, Delhi.
She has served on the Advisory Panel of CBFC India, and is currently the Entertainment Editor at 92.7 Big FM Radio Channel.
Letters to Mother, the English translation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Saakshi Bhaav was published in 2020.
Somaaya was conferred with the Padma Shri in 2017.
On Camera Off Camera—Pages from the Past is Somaaya’s eighteenth book.
