3 IDIOTS ACTOR LAUNCHES HIS NOVEL

Olivier Lafont, who played the much-mocked Suhas Tandon in 3 Idiots (2009), has turned author. His epic fantasy novel Warrior was published by Penguin India in late 2014.

The French actor — a trained actor with a BA in acting who has appeared in over 70 television commercials and films including 3 Idiots and Guzaarish — wrote the novel over weekends while working full time. Warrior is an epic adventure set in modern India with mythological elements: Saam, an immortal warrior and Shiva's demigod son, must cross a cataclysm-torn India with six companions to stop his indomitable father and the end of the world.

The book was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize. Lafont is also a screenwriter — he wrote the screenplay for the award-winning feature film Hari Om.

In an interview about the book, Lafont said his interest in Indian mythology came from his father, a historian and archaeologist, and from reading Amar Chitra Katha after his family moved to India from France.

THE BOOK TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDLMISZAzME

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This article is an original summary. A related contemporary report is on ANOKHI LIFE.