Mahesh Bhatt recently launched good friend Alba Banerjee's latest book. Known for his wisecracks, the filmmaker used a metaphor to describe the book.

`Life is like an oyster that turns the grain of sand which has intruded inside and turns it into a pearl.

Please note that the oyster changes the sand into a pearl simply because it does not want to suffer the anguish of having a foreign body inside it...this book is like that...it helps you take whatever life throws at you and turn it into a pearl, ` he said. Bouncer!