The unexpected author

Businessman Amrish Kumar had originally conceived his debut novel as a movie!

- Lubna Salim

"This book was conceived as a movie and written scene by scene, many years ago when I had finished grad school in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood!" says 44-year-old, Kolkata-born and Delhi-based Amrish Kumar, son of senior designer Ritu Kumar, about his debut novel, Gods of Willow: A Coming of Age Innings.

"THE SETTING OF THE BOOK NEEDED TO BE A PLACE WITH THE FABRIC OF A MIXED STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY, AND HYDERABAD WORKS FOR THAT!" -AMRISH KUMAR, AUTHOR

"At that time, I really wanted to be in the film and entertainment world. But I did a business degree and was heading in a direction that I wasn't sure I would actually end up in. So, I just wanted to write a coming-of-age story, something that would be a little bit about where I was from and a little bit of the kind of stories I like to tell. I don't know how the ideas came about, but I scribbled them in a notebook which stayed with me for the next 15 years. I still have it," recalls Amrish, who runs Ritu Kumar's business.