Nasreen Munni Kabir on coming out with a book on the dialogues from Raj Kapoor's Awara

Every actor or filmmaker needs a person who will champion them and keep their work alive, whether it is Guru Dutt, Smita Patil, Lata Mangeshkar or Bimal Roy. I'm releasing a book on the dialogues from Raj Kapoor's Awara on December 12.

Books on screenplays and dialogues are generally ignored, while we lament bad scripts. The Awara book is on the lines of the one I did on Mughal-e-Azam's dialogues and is written in English, Hindi and Urdu.



"Yes, a lot of Awara's charm was the romance between Raj Kapoor and Nargis, but I have nothing new to say about that relationship. In photographs between them from Awara, you see how involved they were: it wasn't that they were aware of the camera, but they became those characters.

I've used screen grabs from key scenes in the movie and there's also a detailed commentary, an introduction by Randhir Kapoor and a behind-the-scenes section."In February, my book on Mother India's dialogues will be out and I'm now starting on a biography on A R Rahman."