What are our favourite Bollywood stars busy reading all year round? An avid reader, Saif Ali Khan’s taste in literature reflects an eclectic mix of murder mysteries, thrillers and spine-chilling horrors. In fact, even his wife Kareena Kapoor Khan shared his love for “crazy crime thrillers,” as revealed in an interview with The Nod Mag.
While Kareena was busy reading Jessica Bull’s latest crime thriller, A Fortune Most Fatal — a period crime drama with a World War II setting; the Sacred Games actor gave us a peek into all the titles sitting on his To Be Read (TBR) list, during a recent conversation with Esquire India. Black River by Nilanjana S.
Roy According to Khan, it’s a police procedural murder mystery, but it’s also really emotional and moving. “It’s about the murder of a very young little girl. And I love the story so much, I bought the rights to the book, and we are trying to make a movie out of it.
It’s taking a while to write, but it’s a really moving piece. It’s lyrical and dramatic, obviously.
On the back of the book, it says it’s an ode to India that does not exist anymore,” elaborated the Jewel Thief-The Heist actor. Saif and Kareena both love thrillers (Source: Varinder Chawla) Saif and Kareena both love thrillers (Source: Varinder Chawla) Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn “I love very well-written ghost stories.
There’s a collection of them. Lafcadio Hearn, an Irish writer who ended up living in Japan, had a very sad life where both his parents left him or died early.
And then he ended up living in Japan, married a lady there, and got to know the culture really well and would retell famous Japanese ghost stories, but in this amazing poetic prose,” he shared. ALSO READ | 10 books one should read in their 20s Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes “It is a feminist take on all the famous women in Greek myth and history, like Medusa, and people who have been viewed as monstrous in one way or another, but probably through the male gaze. She defends them and explains how that is probably a warped way of looking at it.
I think they’ve done it quite a lot these days. Basically, women who have been called mean or nasty. Medusa, for example, is crazy.
Raped in a temple, and then punished for being raped in the temple by God. This is the worst thing, and she’s viewed as a monster. I’ve always felt something for her,” said Khan.