Mumbai: Acting and writing both as art form transplant us into the world which is not quite real. While acting requires collaborative efforts to reach to the audience, writing is a lonely creative process where the creator chained to the desk rides on the thoughts to create the realm of his or her imagination. Here we have a list of Bollywood divas who let the world know that they have a way with words which is even charming than their on-screen persona.
- Shilpa Shetty Kundra
Actor, fitness and yoga enthusiast, entrepreneur and mother of two, Shilpa Shetty Kundra turned author with the book, The Great Indian Diet, that released in 2015. Shilpa has co-authored the bestseller with a globally renowned holistic lifestyle coach and award-winning holistic nutritionist Luke Coutinho. The book focuses on healthy eating and teaches how one need not opt for exotic ingredients from the West to maintain a perfect diet.
- Divya Dutta
The critically acclaimed actor Divya Dutta turned author with Me And Ma which captures the actor's relationship with her mother. In this 196-page memoir, Dutta allows us a peep into the incredible bond she forged with her mother and how it helped her through difficulties. Published in February 2017, Me and Ma is an intimate and heartfelt tribute to the force behind her success-her mother.
- Anu Aggarwal
The Ashiqui fame actor Anu Aggarwal penned Anusual: Memoir of a Girl Who Came Back from the Dead in 2015. The one-film wonder in her autobiography filled almost all the gaps in her life post-1994. The former model-actor’s memoir is a detailed account of her stay in a yoga ashram in Uttarakhand, coming back to Mumbai, the horrifying car accident that put her in a coma for twenty-nine days and men in her life.
- Soha Ali Khan
Actor Soha Ali Khan, an Oxford-educated, well-travelled and a voracious reader debuted as an author with The Perils Of Being Moderately Famous in 2017. Her maiden literary work garnered positive reviews for it being a brilliant collection of personal essays where she recounts with self-deprecating humour what it was like growing up in one of the most illustrious families of the country. Talking about her process, Soha had once said that it was tough getting the right balance between being honest because she was talking about deeply personal things – insecurities, competition, the future, about being unknown – and opening up to an audience you don’t know.
- Twinkle Khanna
After column in the newspaper, Twinkle Khanna, the actor-turned-writer started her writing career with Mrs. Funnybones and bagged many awards for the same. This was followed by a short story collection, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad. Her other book Pyjamas Are Forgiving had made her the highest-selling female author in India in the year 2018.
- Tisca Chopra
Tisca Chopra's Acting Smart is the book every Bollywood aspirant needs to read before landing in Mumbai. Chopra is all set to come out with another book regarding menstrual health. Titled Book of Period, it will be published by Westland Publications in December 2020. She has also penned a feature film script of a thriller.
- Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor has played many roles from successful actor to businesswoman before turning to write My Yummy Mummy Guide. In the book, Kapoor shares all her experiences from managing her pregnancy to losing all the weight afterwards to disciplining her kids.
- Tahira Kashyap
Tahira Kashyap is not a Bollywood actor but someone who has created the identity of her own other than being the wife of Bollywood's hit-machine Ayushmann Khurrana. Tahira is cherishing the success of recently published book The 12 Commandments Of Being A Woman which is her fourth book as an author. She made her writing debut with I Promise in 2011 and also the novel Souled Out to her credit. She has also co-authored husband Ayushmann Khurrana's biography Cracking The Code: My Journey In Bollywood.
