Bad Man: Gulshan Grover'sáAuthorized Bio

Foreword by Mahesh BhattA remarkable story-Tina AmbaniGrowing up on the fringes of our capital city Gulshan Grover moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in acting in the 1970s. At a time when most wannabe actors held out for the lead he made a conscious choice to opt for villainous roles. He went on to portray many memorable characters with a career-defining role in the 1989 blockbuster Ram Lakhan that established him firmly as the Bad Man of Bollywood. Many a mainstream potboiler of the era rode to success on his trademark one-liners and grotesque get-ups that have become part of Bollywood folklore. He subsequently moved on to the international arena among the first actors from Mumbai to do so in the process becoming one of Indias more recognizable faces in international cinema.In this autobiography Grover tells his story-the films the journey the psychological and personal toll of sustaining the bad man image the competition among Bollywoods villains the move to playing more rounded characters and the challenge of doing international films without relocating to another country or opting out of mainstream Hindi cinema.