Veteran filmmaker Ramesh Sippy will come out with his memoir in 2018 which will have “wonderful inside stories“ about the films he has been associated with, including Andaz, Seeta Aur Geeta, Sholay, Shakti, Shaan and Sagar. First Cut: A FilmMaker's Fifty-Year Odyssey will be published by HarperCollins India. “It is not really an autobiography. It is more a memoir of my life and times through some of the most happening decades of Hindi cinema,“ says Sippy. “While I do have wonderful inside stories about the films I have been involved in, which will hopefully be fun to read, I also hope that I will be able to impart important lessons in the art and craft of filmmaking and the whole business aspect of this maddening, invigorating world which never lets go of you once it has you in its thrall.“

Sippy was also the creator of the mega TV serial Buniyaad and an intrinsic part of what is now lovingly called 'Bollywood Retro' of the 1970s.