Gautam Chintamani

Gautam Chintamani is a film historian and author whose books include the bestselling Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna (2014), The Film That Revived Hindi Cinema (2016), Pink: The Inside Story (2017) and, most recently, Rajneeti: A Biography of Rajnath Singh (2019). His writing has featured in publications across the world and he has also contributed original essays to the British Film Institute. He was on the National Film Awards jury for Best Writing on Cinema in 2016. Gautam is the great-grandson of literarian Sir C.Y. Chintamani and the grandchild of Telugu poet laureate Arudra and noted feminist writer K. Ramalakshmi. He and his wife, Amrita, along with their dog, Buddy, live in Gurugram and in the hills of Himachal.