A Game of Gods: The End is Only the Beginning (The Anunnaki Chronicles Book 1) Read Online Free Page B

in the cast or crew.  But at the end of the weekend, it picked up pace, and the collections rose by a miraculous 90% in Maharashtra. Within a week, I recovered all my costs, and another couple of days, the film started making profit. It went on to become the first blockbuster of that year and ran for over a hundred and fifty days in the region. The dubbed versions also became super hits in the Southern states.  Manav Gandhi had made his impact and I knew I had my hand on the man with the Golden touch.’
    ‘You produced his novel adaptation?’ she tried to maintain the continuity.
    ‘Manav is a man of his word. We met a year later at my Juhu bungalow to talk about handing over the film rights of his first novel. However I had a different idea by then, I asked him if he could prepare a screenplay for his novel. He returned a month later with the boundscript, and after listening to his narration I told him that he would be directing his first Bollywood movie in three months.’
    ‘Was not there any other formalities between the two of you?’ her question clearly trying to unmask the ugly face of the big guns at the industry. Rohan Kapoor felt a little uncomfortable as he shifted on his chair. Pakhi ignored and gazed sharply into Khalid Abdullah’s eyes. Surprisingly Khalid did not seem to be affected by the gaze at all.
    ‘I might have not spared many beautiful faces,’ he gave a short glance at Rohan and then turned towards the reporter who was waiting for the big revelation, ‘but for once in my life I surrendered to talent. The Almighty had his hand on this man’s aura and I would have been a fool to have not seen that. I had bowed unto Manav’s capability as a storyteller and that is the truth which the both of us know.’
    ‘In the past twelve years, has there been any incident where the two of you have been shown the card?’ She asked.
    ‘I’m sorry?’
    ‘Ever got into any arguments or quarrels?’ she eased her question for the producer to understand.
    ‘He was not the kind of person who would get into any arguments...’
    ‘...but he was known to lose his temper frequently on the sets, was not he?’ she interrupted with the most common rumour she had heard about Manav.
    ‘He was very particular about his shots. When he is directing, he is in command of the ship, he would not even let the producer or the lead actor make suggestions, no matter how much big their status were. He would lose his temper when his instructions were ignored or misinterpreted by the crew or cast. However, he never carried any personal grudges against anyone at all! He is a strict director but a very calm and simple human being.’
    ‘Ever had an experience of being rejected by Manav on the set, embarrassing you in front of everyone?’
    ‘Of course, though he did not embarrass me.’
    ‘Any recent ones?’ she punched.
    ‘None!’  He rejected.
    Pakhi moved backwards on the couch, glanced at the notepad. She bit her lips as she skipped another couple of questions before reaching an important question. She raised an eyebrow. She looked at the top shot producer and asked ‘Is Manav having any illness that you are aware of?’
    ‘None that I am aware of. No, he never talked about anything serious apart from dust allergy.’ Khalid replied to a question that he himself wished to resolve.
    ‘There were rumors that he had schizophrenia.’
    ‘Bullshit!’
    Pakhi looked at the time on her watch, she had been there for almost fifteen minutes and she would be shooed off the room any moment from now therefore, she decided to put through the most important question she had on her list ‘Do you believe... err... I am sorry... Do you know if he was threatened by the underworld ?’
    ‘Ha ha ha...What? How would I know that?’ Khalid tried to fake a chuckle. He looked at the superstar beside him who tried to join in.
    ‘Everybody in the industry knows for a fact that Mr. Khalid Abdullah is the glittering face of the