The Perception Game

'As the bus reached the disputed area between the states of Maharashtra and

Karnataka, a group of rioters stopped it. They attacked the bus with sticks and

stones, smashing the windowpanes and glasses. A few of the men barged in and started to snatch wallets, watches and jewellery. Kamla held on to Sikandar and was ready to remove her gold earrings and necklace, but one of the men ripped the earring, tearing her ear, and snatched away the gold necklace, rings and watch. Blood gushed out of her ear, spilling over her neck and saree.'

For six-year-old Sikandar, who flees with his family from riot-torn Belgaum, the glitzy early-1970s' Bombay is the perfect setting to expand his wings. A chance meeting with an underworld don changes Sikandar's life. In the course of the roller-coaster ride that ensues, involving politics, the underworld, Bollywood, fashion, cricket stars, power brokers in New Delhi, billionaire businessmen, top CEOs, famous astrologers, drug-fuelled parties and family drama, he ends up at the pinnacle of the entertainment and celebrity-management industry in India.

Who was this Gatsby-like character who shook Bombay's entertainment world? What made the

media label him 'The Wolf of Entertainment'? Why did his friends call him a possessed man who never slept? What was the dark secret behind his success? The Perception Game takes you on Sikandar's incredible journey, where reality appears stranger than fiction and every successful move must be made through the valley of failure.