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100	1		_aDesai, Kishwar.
245	1	0	_aDarlingji : _bTrue love story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt / _cKishwar Desai ; introduction by Lord Meghnad Desai.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bHarperCollins Publishers, India a joint venture with India Today Group, _c2007.
300			_axi, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill. (some col.) ; _c23 cm.;Pbk.
500			_aRs.450/- Filmography: p. [433]-437.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [438]-439).
520			_aIn the late nineteenth century, in a small village in northern India, a thirteen-year-old Brahmin widow meets a Muslim sarangi player and elopes with him. Many years later, their daughter Jaddanbai moves to Bombay and becomes a star of the early talkies. Chateau Marine, her home on Marine Drive, is famous for its evening mehfils and for the dreams it nurtures: regular visitors include Dilip Kumar, Mehboob and Kamal Amrohi. It is also the home of Fatima, Jaddanbai's daughter, who will set the screen ablaze as Nargis, the most accomplished actress of her time. Far removed from this world of glamour, a young boy named Balraj Dutt spends his teenage years attempting to rehabilitate himself and his family after the trauma of Partition. In 1950, at the age of twenty, he arrives in Bombay. And there his life takes an unexpected turn: he is given the lead role in a new film, and is soon on his way to becoming Sunil Dutt, the film star. Then comes the moment that transforms both their lives: on 1 March 1957, during the making of Mother India, Nargis is trapped in a circle of flames and Sunil risks his life to save her. They recuperate together, and fall in love. Nargis has been in a long but futile relationship with the mercurial Raj Kapoor, and in Sunil she finally finds an anchor. Their relationship is stormy and secretive to start with, but it survives every crisis to culminate in a quite wedding on 11 March 1958. What follows are years of togetherness, including the joys of caring three children, Sanjay, Namrata and Priya but also days of pain and heartbreak: financuial trouble, Nargis's illness, Sanjay's addiction to drugs. Based on the diaries and letters of Nargis, Sunil and their daughter Priya, as well as on conversations and interviews with family and friends, Darlingji - as they often addressed each other - is a probing yet affectionate biography of two extraordinary people and their love for each other.
600	1	0	_aDutt, Nargis, _d1929-1981.
600	1	0	_aDutt, Sunil.
650		0	_aMotion picture actors and actresses _zIndia _vBiography.
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