The actor, lyricist and musician Piyush Mishra says in the foreword of his memoir: “I don’t have the courage to write an autobiography. Neither do I have the temperament. Nor the mood.” Tumhari Auqaat Kya Hai, Piyush Mishra , translated from the Hindi by Shillpi A Singh, is in the voice of the invented character Santap Trivedi alias Hamlet, from one of Mishra’s most well-known plays. Mishra also uses pseudonyms for several well-known actors and directors, such as “Nadeem Shah”, “Samar Bajpayee”, “Aniket Kashyap” and “Sambal Bharadwaj”.

In this excerpt, Mishra writes about fighting for a credit on his first film as a screenwriter, which he says was adapted from his own play about Bhagat Singh.

‘The writer of this script is …’

When he returned to Mumbai, a car took him directly from the

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