Nanna Thamma Shankara (Kannada)

Its common for a normal person to be curious to know more details about a person he/she admires/loves/hates . The curiosity is even more when that person happens to be a celebrity like Shankar Nag fascination towards his work .This book is well written and makes a very good read. Since the characters are familiar to us we can actually visualize the events while reading the book and that makes the book even more interesting to read. The main strength of the book is that it is more conversational than just narration of events. The use of simple language makes the reader relate to it easily and as a writer ananth does not put his opinion or point of view to the readers. He just presents the events in the form of conversations and leaves it to the reader to make his/her own opinion. Ananth also makes it a point to provide a good amount of information about the people places and groups as and when they occur in the book. Ananth succeeds in letting the user know the character of Shankar Nag and also his thought process to a large extent. Rather than focussing on Shankar''s film life and landmarks this book shows light on what Shankar did and thought when he is not facing the camera. I would like to highlight that this book also reminds us of some of the beautiful words in kannada which are hardly used these days. In this book it says that Shankar Nag & Anantha Nag mother stayed with them after their father died later she moved to ashrama as per her wish & told that all these years she took care of the family now her sons are standing on their own feet she has seen her grand children what more can she ask for so she decides to go to ashrama & asks her sons not to worry about society for thinking their mother is at ashrama as whenever her sons wanted to do something they never informed FATHER OR MOTHER. Shankar Nag had a big idea in his mind. A huge project comprising many projects.