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And, Scene! Harpercollins Acquires Rights to Actress Lillete Dubey’s Forthcoming Memoir

 

HarperCollins India is thrilled to announce the acquisition of a fascinating memoir by actor Lillete Dubey.

HarperCollins India is proud to announce that it has acquired the world rights to film actor and theatre veteran Lillete Dubey’s book, to be published in 2021. The artiste shall make her debut as an author with this non-fiction book, which has not been titled yet.
Lillete Dubey says, “This will be a memoir that explores my theatrical journey of over four decades and my experiences as an actor for the past 20 years in films and television, both national and international, that ran parallel to it. Both these journeys were unusual choices at the time and both very different from the norm in a sense. From the exuberant 1970s to this unimaginably altered, almost dystopian world that we have inherited after Covid-19, it is both the tracing of a professional life where passion ruled all, and the inextricable connection that it always had with my personal life, and how these two mirrored and informed each other.”

The actor has worked in both Bollywood and Hollywood films and performed in numerous plays nationally and internationally. She is also a theatre director and the founder of The Primetime Theatre Company. Her book will be about her professional craft: theatre and cinema, but she will share some life-defining personal moments together with the experiences and anecdotes of working with an incredible array of talents and personalities.

Krishan Chopra, Publisher, HarperCollins said, “Lillete Dubey’s forthcoming memoir of her four-decade career in theatre and films is one that anyone will relate to. It provides a deep look at the world of entertainment and its passionate and talented inhabitants, as it recounts a journey from a more innocent, exuberant world to the more intrusive, dystopian one we now inhabit. We are absolutely delighted to be publishing her book.”
Commissioning editor of the book, Ananya Borgohain, added, “While Lillete Dubey is unanimously admired by theatre and cinema lovers, this book will widen her audience as she shall be offering life lessons to a younger generation, drawing inspiration from her craft and years of interacting and collaborating with some of the most creative minds in India. This book will be a profound contribution to performing arts in our country and by publishing it, we also hope to encourage more Indian parents to let their children pursue this discipline professionally.”

About the author:
Lillete Dubey is an actress and a theatre director. She is also the founder of The Prime Time Theatre Company. While Ms Dubey has directed several plays, one of her most prominent works is Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man, the longest-running Indian play in English. It has completed hundreds of shows all across the globe. A few of her memorable roles in movies have been in Monsoon Wedding, Zubeidaa, Baghban, Kal Ho Naa Ho, and The Lunchbox. She has also worked in the British film, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel, both starring Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel, among others.

About HarperCollins
HarperCollins India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian subcontinent and around the world, publishing approximately 200 new books every year, with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2000 titles across 10 imprints. HarperCollins India authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize, the DSC Prize, the New India Foundation Award, the Atta Galatta Prize, the Shakti Bhatt Prize, the Publishing Next Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Crossword Book Award and the JCB Prize Award. HarperCollins India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world including Oneworld, Bonnier Zaffre, Usborne, Dover and Lonely Planet. HarperCollins India is also the only publisher to have been awarded the Publisher of the Year Award three times: at Publishing Next in 2015, at Tata Literature Live! in 2016 and 2018.

For more information, please write to Aman Arora at aman.arora@harpercollins.co.in

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