India, July 18 -- Khalid Mohamed grew up movie-struck. Once he became a journalist, his beat eventually took him to the movie world. He developed a rapport with stars such as Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Dharmendra, Raakhee, Smita Patil, Karisma Kapoor, Rekha and others, whom he interviewed, cast in his movies or got to know. The relationships were almost familial. But friendship, as he soon discovered, lasted only as long as he gave favourable reviews to their films. Where he used his sharp critical scalpel, the welcomes invariably froze. Not Quite Family is an account of Mohamed's exciting years in the Bombay film world. It is also an emotive rendering of the Bombay that was - temperate and gracious. This is also a book that takes the reader back to an era when filmstars were more mysterious....