Publisher: HarperCollins India
Latika, a sexy Bollywood journo transforms into a successful item girl, a star-struck news producer Diyali becomes obsessed with a Bollywood star but the dream soon spins recklessly out of control, a double crossing reporter Nandu who cheats you of your byline, a tofu crunching hack Indu with a biological clock going tick-tock-tick-tock adds to the newsroom mayhem, where a young reporter finds herself. Even as she is torn between a boyfriend who feels ignored and a father who is ashamed of her career choice. She soon finds that being a 24/7 entertainment reporter is not a ‘glamour show’, but a harrowing ball crushing back breaking Garbage Beat. She stumbles across prissy stars, gritty item girls, vain heroines, egoistic superstars who get their ‘bad’ stories dropped by blackmailing editors.
A wild roller coaster ride through the adrenalin stoked corridors of entertainment reportage where it’s not just who you know, it’s what you know which define the rules of survival.
