Emraan Hashmi’s much-awaited book The Kiss of Life: How a Superhero and My Son Defeated Cancerwas launched today by his six-year-old son Ayaan. Penned by Emraan and co-authored by Bilal Siddiqui, the book is about his then three-year old son’s battle against cancer.
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The book fictionalizes the pain of a child fighting cancer and the parents’ emotional trauma as a fairy tale that involves Ayaan’s favorite superheroes Iron Man and Batman who inspired him to fight back and recover.
Actor Akshay Kumar too turned author with this book, as he wrote a heartfelt foreword. Akshay’s father too had battled cancer and Akshay had reached out to Emraan during the tough time. On reading the foreword, Emraan said in an interview, “It is very touching…very emotionally charged. It reflects the essence of the book. The book is not just about dealing with the disease, but it’s also about what we can do as a family as a unit among other things. And the foreword brings that out.”
The Bollywood fraternity was only too happy to support Emraan!
