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Leela : a Patchwork Life by Naidu, Leela;Pinto, Jerry is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Leela : a Patchwork Life about?
Leela Naidu was listed as one of the five most beautiful women in the world by Vogue magazine. But she was much more than that. She was the fine-boned; haunting face in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anuradha; in Merchant-Ivory’s The Householder and in Shyam Benegal’s Trikaal. She was the woman who refused to sign Raj Kapoor’s films four times; and the actor who asked for a script long before the phrase ‘bound script’ became Bollywood cliché. Jean Renoir taught her acting and Salvador Dali used her as a
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Naidu, Leela;Pinto, Jerry
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd;Penguin, Viking
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9788184752540
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Biography & Autobiography
- Rating
- 3.15 / 5 (74 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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