At least until the late 2000s, probably two of the best read authors in Andheri West - and going further up northwards - were Rajendra Ojha (God bless his soul), and Ramesh Malhotra. Given that the only decent bookstore in the area, the legendary Landmark, shut down years ago, presumably for lack of customers, one could safely assume people in Andheri don't dig books much.

The reason for Ojha and Malhotra's unlikely literary success was they wrote textbooks - an annually updated address/phone directory of successful folk in the film industry that young aspirants, especially those looking for acting assignments, like young Vineet Kumar Singh (who moved from Varanasi to Mumbai in 1999), would study, with a marker every morning, jotting down places to haunt, seeking work, ideally hit 16-17 offices a day and return with having been turned away by the security-guard, at worst; or made acquaintance with a chief assistant, at best.