Alyque Padamsee
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Alyque Padamsee is a legendary theater personality and the top advertising professional of India.
He is considered a wizard in the advertising field, his autobiography A double life is an invigorating book about his life. He also played Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the film Gandhi and was in A Force More Powerful. He was married to Sharon Prabhakar.
Padamsee recently participated as a panel speaker at the launch of a new book "Ayn Rand at 100" in Mumbai, India, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth. Padamsee revealed that Ayn Rand has had an influential role in his life, and that after Shakespeare, he considers Rand's works to be his favorite. He particularly enjoyed the romanticism of The Fountainhead; at the event, he orally interpreted one of the dramatic scenes from the novel.