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Mee and Juhibaby

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[Mukherjee] captures with sensitivity and humour the fragile equations in a marriage, between mothers and daughters, friends and lovers -and equally, the world of Hindi cinema. This is also the tale of four cities-Benares, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. A rich and engrossing saga.'-SHABANA AZMI, actor
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Item Code: HAJ253
Author: Susmita Mukherjee
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
Language: English
Edition: 2018
ISBN: 9789388070874
Pages: 265
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.00 X 5.00 inch
Weight 200 gm
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About the Book
Mee's mother, Juhibaby, is the unwanted child of constantly travelling jatra artistes in rural Bengal. Growing into a ravishing sixteen-year-old, she is married off to a family in distant New Delhi, where Mee is born. Mee's life is a far cry from Juhibaby's, as she grows up in a respectable middle-class family and goes to an upmarket convent school. Juhibaby's constant criticism of her leads to a growing bitterness between mother and daughter. But what Mee inherits from her mother is a love of acting. She follows her star to Mumbai, where she becomes a successful Bollywood actress. But a failed marriage and a bruising rejection by a movie mogul derail her into a world of alcohol, promiscuity and physical decline.

As she struggles to make a living as a TV writer, Mee gets to know that the mother from whom she has long been estranged is now blind and ailing, in an old-age home. Mee rescues her, and mother and daughter find it in their hearts to forgive each other and forge a sort of bond before Juhibaby's days come to an end.

About the Author
Susmita Mukherjee is an actor. A graduate of the National School of Drama, she has done pioneering work in her 35-year-long career in theatre, films and television. She founded the Natak theatre company in 1988 and her script, Nati, has played to full houses at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai and elsewhere. She has acted in over 100 films. Her most recent, Sold, deals with child trafficking. It was directed by Oscar-winning director Jeffery Brown, and released in the US in 2016. Susmita has also written several short stories, and is working on her second novel.

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