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Flashback My Life And Times In Bollywood And Beyond: Autobiography
by
Bob Christo
Robert John Christo, popularly known as Bob Christo, was born in 1938 in Sydney, Australia.
Paperback
,
263 pages
Published
July 26th 2011
by Penguin India
(first published January 1st 2011)
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Bob Christo the most popular and loved expat actor in the Indian film Industry decided to write about his life and how.
With a lot of anecdotes about his life some believable some unbelievable, some funny some sad this book lays the life of the person bare before the reader.
The books elaborates as to how a German born during the World War II, brought up in Australia, with an educational background of civil engineering, goes from the Vietnam war via Rhodesia to Bollywood.
Written in simple langua ...more
With a lot of anecdotes about his life some believable some unbelievable, some funny some sad this book lays the life of the person bare before the reader.
The books elaborates as to how a German born during the World War II, brought up in Australia, with an educational background of civil engineering, goes from the Vietnam war via Rhodesia to Bollywood.
Written in simple langua ...more
Ok, bad things first, this is probably the most hopelessly unstructured book that I've ever read. Early on Bob mentions about his ability to recount events with amazing clarity decades down the line and that comes across in the book though one would have hoped for it to be a bit more structured. Probably it has something to do with the fact that Bob Christo's life defied any established structures. He lived 3-4 lifetimes in one and leaves the reader with the feeling if everything mentioned in th
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It is an interesting story because the writing makes the somewhat mundane come across as spectacular. There's a bit of brashness, a sense of hubris but more importantly enormous pride in having lived a full life.
I am a bit of a Bollywood tragic. I had hoped to learn something - didn't though.
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