Acting Smart: Your Ticket To Showbiz

Do you wake up dreaming of millions screaming your name? Do you fantasize about your face beaming down from hoardings? Do you practise your Oscar thank-you speech in your head? Or see yourself walking the red carpet at Cannes?

Is a career in showbiz what you aspire to above all else but are daunted by where to start? Are you clueless about who to meet and how to get your first break? Does the casting couch exist and how do you handle it? How do you keep getting work and become un-ignorable?

Tisca Chopra Acting Smart is the book you have been waiting for. Packed with nuts-and-bolts ideas hilarious anecdotes as well as sharp advice from some of the biggest names in cinema actors agents film-makers and casting directors this is a not just a handbook on how to take on the challenges of the mercurial quicksand of show business but also a look into the working of the creative maelstrom called the film industry.