In the summer of year 2003 The Indian Express decided to publish a book tracing the journey of Indian cinema and was compiled together with combined efforts of expert contributors like RVijaykar and Monica Motwani.
The Story So Far highlighted the milestones of Indian cinema and music. The thing about celluloid is that people remember fragments of the fascinating tale and forget it with passage of time and therefore the same story has to be told again and again because people reading it and listening to it are changing.
So, like filmmakers who weave old patterns in new textures we writers’ package familiar stories with new perspectives.
To make the book interesting we included stories of show business off screen and also told the story of our own publication, film industry’s first and oldest tabloid Screen, how it was born and blossomed over the decades.
In the year 2000 when I joined The Express Group as Editor, Screen the publication was celebrating its golden jubilee year and I was Screen’s fifth editor. The Story So Far designed by the talented art director Padmini Patel was part of Screen’s golden jubilee celebrations. SalmanKhan and #Rekha are exclusive stars and I am wondering I must have done something right for both of them to so happily support this special moment. To be continued

To be continued