Living the Dream the Life of the Bollywood Actor by Mark Bennington

Every day in India thousands of starry-eyed aspiring actors move to Mumbai with one thing in common: a dream - of fame, fortune and eternal glory. Many Indians living outside the country are also charged by a desire to become famous in the glittery world of Bollywood, to win awards and live the tabloid life of luxury.Living the Dream: The Life of the Bollywood Actor is a photography book that explores the lives of those who dare to dream against the odds of the world's largest film industry. From students to megastars and everyone in between, it contains more than a hundred photographs and interviews of people from every branch of Bollywood. This is the story of a dream that many share but only a handful about know,

Mark Bennington is a portrait
photographer based in New York.
He has been a featured contributor
for the Los Angeles Times, the Wall
Street Journal, the Times of India,
F o r b e s , P l a t f o r m a n d W o r t h
magazine. He also starred in
Dibakar Banerjee's Detective
Byomkesh Bakshy (2015