Mehra was вЂњdeeply disappointed and crestfallenвЂќ and declared that he would never make Samjhauta Express.

Mehra also mentions how he planned to launch Abhishek Bachchan in a film called Samjhauta Express but it did not materialise.Д«efore they were to shoot the first schedule in Ladakh, Jaya Bachchan called Mehra to say that Refugee will be AbhishekвЂ™s first film, not Samjhauta Express. They all have to serve the film and the directorвЂ™s job is to remind each artist of the one vision that everyone is working towards,вЂќ Mehra says of the Oscar winner with whom he has also worked in Delhi-6. Music, editing, cinematography, art direction, wardrobe, lyrics, actors etc. вЂњAR understands something very fundamental: thereвЂ™s only one truth when youвЂ™re making a film вЂ“ that youвЂ™re making that one film. On his association with AR Rahman, he writes, вЂњOne of the greatest joys of my life has been to be inside the recording studio when AR is creating a song of mine, not because I feel the need to guide but because I enjoy seeing his creative genius at work.вЂќ Though I never made it to the final national team for the Asian Games, sports was a way of life and continues to be,вЂќ the director, who has helmed sports-based films like Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and his latest Toofaan, says. My teammates eventually won the bronze at the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi. вЂњI was the youngest on the team, and made it all the way to the final training camp for the contingent that trained for the Asian Games. In the book, Mehra also mentions his love for sports and how he almost made it to the Indian swimming squad at the 1982 Asian Games. Readers can scan the codes in the book and this will lead to a particular scene or song from the film concerned.

Perhaps for the first time, QR codes are provided in a book for an enhanced reader experience. It has a foreword by AR Rahman and an afterword by Aamir Khan.

A post shared by Sonam K Ahuja book features first-person accounts of some of the most prolific names of Indian cinema and the advertising world вЂ“ Waheeda Rahman, AR Rahman, Manoj Bajpayee, Abhishek Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Ronnie Screwvala, Atul Kulkarni, R Madhavan, Divya Dutta and Prahlad Kakar.

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