num_pages: 400
description: Mumbai is a city that thrives on extravagant spectacles and larger-than-life characters.But as Chopra is about to discover even in the city of dreams there is no guarantee of a happy ending. Rising star and incorrigible playboy Vikram Verma has disappeared leaving his latest film in jeopardy. Hired by Verma's formidable mother to find him Inspector Chopra and his sidekick baby elephant Ganesha embark on a journey deep into the world's most flamboyant movie industry. As they uncover feuding stars failed investments and death threats it seems that many people have a motive for wanting Verma out of the picture. And yet as Chopra has long suspected in Bollywood the truth is often stranger than fiction...
language: English
title: The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star
publisher: Redhook