The Book
For nearly thirty years from 1940, the Gemini Studios of Madras was the most influential film-producing organization of India and its founder, the brilliant multi-faceted entrepreneur S. S. Vasan lent substance and quality to the rather fragile and unpredictable movie business. Sahitya Akademi award-winning Tamil writer Ashokamitran worked for the Gemini Studios from 1952 to 1966. A full twenty years after Ashokamitran ‘renounced’ films, poet-editor Pritish Nandy persuaded him to record his reminiscences and the result was a series of articles making up My Years with Boss.
The Author(s)
Ashokamitran is one of the most distinguished of contemporary Tamil writers. His years of rich and diverse contribution to Tamil literature have brought him many honours and awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award (1996).