Saransh movie anupam kher biography

Actor Anupam Kher’s recently published autobiography Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly is a collection of vignettes about his formative years in Shimla, his time at the National School of Drama in Delhi, his early struggles in the Hindi film industry in Mumbai and his later success in Bollywood and Hollywood.

Kher exercises the prerogative of the memoirist and cherry-picks from his extensive filmography. One movie gets the maximum attention: Mahesh Bhatt’s Saaransh (1984).

The prologue of the autobiography is about Saaransh (Kher calls it a “watershed”).

Several pages across chapters are devoted to the making of the film and its impact on the actor (“it became a trajectory for the future – it gave me a life to live and directed me on how to live that life”).

Mahesh Bhatt’s poignant study of aging and death was released in 1984, two years after Kher made his debut in a small role in Muzaffar