Perhaps audaciously billed as a “degraded epic”, The Book succeeds in what is an extremely ambitious undertaking, following its unlikely protagonist across the backstreets of London and Birmingham to ...

Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunk who cannot pay his tab trades his 'winning' ticket to the waiter, Namdev (Pran), instead. Namdev decides to share this ticket ...

That The Book should exist as a novel at all owes itself as much to chance as to Hakim’s dedication. Adapted from a screenplay initially scheduled for shooting in Uzbekistan in 2005, Hakim aborted the ...