‘Anything that is anti-growth is demonised because growth is the biggest religion.’ Part 1: The hit filmmaker who left it all to tend cows IMAGE: Mansoor Khan at his farm stay in Coonoor. He left the success of Bollywood behind for a quieter life. Photographs: Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com Mansoor Khan made two of Hindi cinema’s most adorable films — Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, made a couple of other films, then turned his back on Bollywood. He abandoned showbusiness and the city to begin life on a farm in Coonoor 15 years ago. He has nurtured the farm in the hills into a green paradise. An assortment of trees, plants, birds thrive and flourish. Elephants, porcupines, the barking deer come by to visit. Khan and his wife Tina also have 12 cows that graze freely and provide milk for their small cheese business. The couple runs a home stay and gives lessons in cheese-making. Khan is a persuasive evangelist for saving the planet and brings out the horrors of civilisation’s excess evocatively. “I’m sorry I’m hijacking your interview with my views, but this is me,” he says. “People tell me just because you say it people are… Read full this story
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