Dilip Kumar: A non-fan’s tribute July 11, 2021, 6:38 PM IST Santosh Desai is a leading ad professional. He says he has strayed into writing entirely by accident, and for this he is "grateful". "City City Bang Bang" looks at contemporary Indian society from an everyday vantage point. It covers issues big and small, tends where possible to avoid judgmental positions, and tries instead to understand what makes things the way they are. The desire to look at things with innocent doubt helps in the emergence of fresh perspectives and hopefully, of clarity of a new kind. LESS... MORE I was never a Dilip Kumar fan. He was someone who always resided on the periphery of my consciousness, as a totemic figure to be revered in an abstract way. Everyone around me paid their mandatory tributes to him from time to time, and while his position on some distant pedestal remained unchallenged, one rarely felt a compulsion to get better acquainted with his work. Part of the reason was of course the fact that for a 60s-born like me, his era had already receded into the sepia past, and the moniker ‘Tragedy King’ was not motivating enough for an adolescent to try and catch up on his films.