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A Double Life


Alyque Padamsee has spent his lifetime in two professions, theater and advertising. Considered as the godfather of Indian advertising and patriarch of English theater in India, Padamsee gives the readers a peek into the creativity involved in both the fields, the problems he faced and the way he emerged on top of most of these. This book describes the life of a person who brought energy, enthusiasm and commitment to everything he was involved with and seemed to inspire the many people he came in contact with: clients, employees, actors, the media, and friends. It contains numerous anecdotes set in 60's-80's of some of India's most successful advertisements and theater productions. An interesting and insightful autobiographical reminiscences of a theater and advertising personality.

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