• ISBN13: 9789381017722
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Career Counselling
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publisher Imprint: Zubaan
• Publication Date: February 16, 2013
• Pages: 200
• Original Price: 325.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 530 grams

Hansa Wadkar (born Ratan Bhalchandra) was one of Maharashtra's best known stage and screen personalities. By the time she was married, to a much older family friend and impressario when she was just 15, she had already starred in nine or ten movies and was becoming a name in the film world. Supporting her family on her earnings, her brother sick with malaria and both parents having taken to drink, life was not easy for the young woman. But Hansa was not only beautiful and immensely talented, she was tough, willful, capricious and headstrong. Her autobiography, published in 1970, created a sensation for its frankness and directness.