He released a new excerpt from the book, this time narrated by Amitabh Bachchan, the lead actor in his debut film Aks Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s autobiography, The Stranger In The Mirror, was recently released.

Previously, in another excerpt from the book, Rakeysh revealed how Amitabh reacted when he read the script for the film.

Rakeysh wrote Let’s Do It in The Stranger in the Mirror in a note titled, “It was the winter of 1998. I had given Amit Ji (Amitabh Bachchan) a script that he was supposed to read over an evening flight to Delhi (Hope springs eternal!). I was quivering like a fiddle string, excited with anticipation, about what he would think.”

“Unexpectedly, my phone rang at 11 p.m. A hushed voice spoke to me, whispering and yet managing to drown the mechanical, oddly piercing background noise of a plane making its way after landing. AB: What were you drinking? Me: Sorry sir! AB: What were you drinking when you wrote this script? Me: Rum and Coke, sir. AB: Let’s do it!”

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