India, June 26 -- Amol Palekar and I live within a two kilometre radius of each other in Pune. I have often seen him at the walking track that he helped to build (incident mentioned in the book) accompanied by spouse and creative force behind this book, Sandhya Gokhale. He certainly doesn't know me. In my case and for many others, he has been the quintessential common man's actor who looked different and was more relatable than the usual Hindi film leading man. That's all thanks to the Basu Chatterjee films that bolstered that image and gave us an endearing middle-class hero. Those were confidence-boosting films for a whole generation of fairly ordinary looking men with ambitions of being a movie star. Amongst other things, Viewfinder unr...