{"product_id":"autobiography-of-an-actor-sivaji-ganesan-rare-books","title":"Autobiography of an Actor sivaji ganesan [RARE BOOKS]","description":"\u003cp\u003eT. S. Narayanaswamy's desire to write a biography on Ganesan began in 1974, and he began collecting resources the same year. In 1996, after Narayanaswamy retired from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNICEF\" title=\"UNICEF\"\u003eUNICEF\u003c\/a\u003e, he believed it was the right time to begin writing the book; Ganesan too agreed to talk to him. After Narayanaswamy spent over a year collecting press material related to Ganesan published between 1952 and 1996, he was ready to ask Ganesan questions. Ganesan saw numerous factual errors in the press material collected by Narayanaswamy, who then emphasised the need for Ganesan to \"set things right\". Ganesan asked him if he could write a book \"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First-person_narrative\" title=\"First-person narrative\"\u003eas it comes out of my mouth\u003c\/a\u003e\", and the biography was changed into an autobiography.\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autobiography_of_an_Actor#cite_note-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e1\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is told in the manner of a Q\u0026amp;A format, from nearly 80 hours of audio recordings; according to Narayanaswamy, Ganesan told him that by following the Q\u0026amp;A format, \"there won't be any editorial licence or pussy-footing; instead, it will be all that I've experienced, as I've seen and felt it, and you'll record it without changing anything\".\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autobiography_of_an_Actor#cite_note-2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e2\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNarayanaswamy spent four years working on the book.\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autobiography_of_an_Actor#cite_note-3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e3\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOver 2000 photographs of Ganesan had been collected for using in the book, but only 200 were used.\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autobiography_of_an_Actor#cite_note-4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e4\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe recordings of the conversations between Ganesan and Narayanaswamy are stored at the archives of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_India_Radio\" title=\"All India Radio\"\u003eAll India Radio\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chennai\" title=\"Chennai\"\u003eChennai\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Best Of Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45638687588609,"sku":"31XE0NHMP-Used","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/hu_595de571-5b60-403c-8546-7d7d7ab5e9b7.jpg?v=1727938068","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/autobiography-of-an-actor-sivaji-ganesan-rare-books","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}