Published by Aleph Book Company, the actress's book, which looks at her childhood, is filled with family photographs from different stages of her life.
Deepti Naval’s memoir, A Country Called Childhood, to be released next month
Mumbai - 15 Jun 2022 19:44 IST
Sonal Pandya
Deepti Naval’s memoir, A Country Called Childhood, will be released next month by Aleph Book Company. The book will look at her childhood and is filled with family photographs from different stages of her life.
Aleph Book Company is delighted to announce the publication of #ACountryCalledChildhood by @DeeptiNaval pic.twitter.com/JByefuaS3c
— Aleph Book Company (@AlephBookCo) June 15, 2022
According to the publishers, A Country Called Childhood will explore Deepti Naval’s life growing up in Amritsar, Punjab, in the 1950s and 1960s.
The press release said: In extremely visual and evocative prose, Naval describes an unforgettable childhood filled with love, adventure, mystery, tragedy and joy. She uncovers, in great detail, life in an unconventional Punjabi family while plunging the reader into the distinctive sights, smells and sounds of a fast-vanishing India. Starting at the moment of her birth on a rainy night, she tracks her journey to adulthood, a path punctuated by many personal turning points as also momentous events of national importance, such as the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Indo-Pak War of 1965.
The memoir will also explore Naval’s career as an actress, director, writer, painter and photographer. The actress made her debut with a small role in Junoon (1978) and went on to act in more than 90 films, including Ek Baar Phir (1980), Chashme Buddoor (1981), Saath Saath (1982), Katha (1982), Kamla (1984) and Mirch Masala (1987).
Last seen on the big screen in a small but key role in Lion (2016) starring Dev Patel, the veteran actress has also appeared in the TV series Mukti Bandhan in 2011 and Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai in 2016. She also acted in the British television film The Boy With The Topknot with Anupam Kher and the 2020 web-series Pawan & Pooja and Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors.
Naval won the Best Screenplay award at the New York Indian Film Festival for her directorial film, Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish, in 2010.
This is not Naval’s first foray into writing. She has already published three books; her first collection of poems, Lamha Lamha, published in 1981, Black Wind and Other Poems in 2004, and The Mad Tibetan: Stories from Then and Now in 2011.
