Having made only seven films in two decades, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, it seems obvious, is not a man in a hurry. Even his memoir, The Stranger in The Mirror, took four years to write. Like his films, from Aks to Toofan, the book has no single narrator. Instead, his collaborators—A. R. Rahman, Aamir Khan and Mehra’s wife, award-winning editor P. S. Bharathi—step in to give the reader a sense of his life and work. Excerpts from a candid interview with the 50-year-old filmmaker:
Why was this the right time for you to take stock of your life and write this book?
There’s no right or wrong time. This whole process started four years ago. I love reading books on cinema— autobiographies of writers, makers, actors and other technicians—and it all started from there. There’s always this urge to share stories about your films before you forget all about them.
Why did the title The Stranger in the Mirror feel apt?
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