Leela Naidu was listed as one of the five most beautiful women in the world by Vogue magazine. But she was much more than that. She was the fine-boned; haunting face in Hrishikesh Mukherjee s Anuradha; in Merchant-Ivory s The Householder and in Shyam Benegal s Trikaal. She was the woman who refused to sign Raj Kapoor s films four times; and the actor who asked for a script long before the phrase bound script became Bollywood clich . Jean Renoir taught her acting and Salvador Dali used her as a model for a Madonna. Leela was married; the mother of twins and divorced before she was twenty. Later; she was Dom Moraes s muse; his unpaid secretary; his best friend and; when he was interviewing Indira Gandhi; his translator (interpreting his mumbling questions ). Through this time she also edited magazines and dubbed Hong Kong action movies; was Kumar Shahani s first producer; and when JRD Tata wanted a film on how to use the washroom on a plane; she made it for him. A Patchwork Life is a memoir that is charming; idiosyncratic and a window to a world of Chopin; red elephants; lampshades made of human skin; moss gardens and much more: a world where a naked Russian count turns up in a French garden; plush hotels offer porcupine quills as toothpicks and an assistant director sends his female lead an inflatable rubber bra. Leela s life was about staying in the moment . Everyone who met her has a Leela Naidu story. This is her version.
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