Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan has turned author with her
first book, The Perils Of Being Moderately Famous. The book will be out in
December. In the book, the actor-turned-author speaks about her experiences as
a ‘modern-day princess’ to her days at college to starting her career as a
management associate and then to her life as a film celeb.
For Soha, this book is a way to divulge her ‘real self’ to
the world. She revealed a tabloid, ''A lot of people have misconceptions about
who I am as a person, what kind of upbringing I had, and how’s it belonging to
a famous family where everyone is a bit of a superstar — my brother (actor Saif
Ali Khan), mother (actor Sharmila Tagore), father (Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan
Pataudi) and sister-in-law (actor Kareena Kapoor Khan). But when they meet me,
they are like ‘You aren’t like what I expected’. I thought it would be nice to
give people an insight into what it’s like to be me.''
Speaking about how the idea came about to write a book, Soha
told, “I was a student of History in college, so we had to write a lot of
essays, and since then a lot of people said you write so well, you should write
a book someday. Of course, I love reading, but I have always said that there’s
a great difference between being a good reader and being able to write.”
“There are chapters from my life — childhood and college
days, travel, films, the Pataudi lineage, and our relationship with [legendary
author] Rabindranath Tagore,” she added.
Asked about the interesting title, she replied, “Everyone in
my family is an achiever, but though not entirely non-famous, I am certainly
not of that calibre of fame”, and hence the title ‘moderately famous’.”, she
added further.
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