Darlingji

by Kishwar Desai

It is by my wife and Darlingji is what Nargis and Sunil Dutt called each other. Their love story has its roots in the partition. It’s the story of three generations of singers. The grandmother was a child widow who eloped with a sarangi player and then their daughter Jaddanbai who moves to Bombay and becomes an actress. Her daughter is Nargis and the book is about the obstacles she overcame before she was famous. It is very much from a woman’s perspective.