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Musafir Cafe author signs 500 copies in Lucknow
Hindustan Times·
Author Divya Prakash Dubey said the OTT adaptation of Musafir Cafe has lifted sales of his Hindi titles. In Lucknow he said he signed over 500 copies at a book festival. He said non-readers are now buying Almost Pyaar and his earlier books. Dubey tied the core of his stories to Lucknow, where he studied and took his first job.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Musafir Cafe is now available in English as well as Hindi after the series release, Dubey said.
- Readers newly drawn by the show are also buying his earlier books, according to feedback he described.
- He said other Hindi authors are seeing doors open after a Hindi title reached OTT adaptation.
What's Happening
- Dubey recalled watching passengers for hours at Charbagh railway station while building characters and dialogue.
- He said a roadside bookseller once refused to discount an Osho title priced at Rs 250 a copy.
- Signing books in Hazratganj, where he once browsed during engineering coaching, left him nostalgic.
How Lucknow feeds Dubey's fiction
- Dubey frames Musafir Cafe and the railway station as places where people meet, leave, and keep memories.
- He said the series elevated his identity as an author and improved his fee negotiations.
- The interview was given during a return to his hometown after the adaptation's release.
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