Leela: A Patchwork Life
By Unknown Author.
Description
Leela Naidu was listed as one of the five most beautiful women in the world by Vogue magazine. But she was much more than that. She was the fine-boned, haunting face in Hrishikesh Mukherjee s Anuradha, in Merchant-Ivory s The Householder and in Shyam Benegal s Trikaal. She was the woman who refused to sign Raj Kapoor s films four times, and the actor who asked for a script long before the phrase bound script became Bollywood cliché. Jean Renoir taught her acting and Salvador Dali used her as a model for a Madonna. Leela was married, the mother of twins and divorced before she was tw...
ISBN(s)
0670999113, 9780670999118
