The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time is the autobiography of:
- A.Subhash Chandra
- B.Kalanithi Maran
- C.Ronnie Screwvala
- D.Uday Shankar
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The correct answer is A, Subhash Chandra. The founder of the Essel group and of Zee, India's first privately owned Hindi satellite channel, told his story in The Z Factor, written with Pranjal Sharma. The book moves from a rice trading family in Hisar in Haryana to packaging, to an amusement park and then to television, and the subtitle refers to his own description of himself as an outsider to the media business. Option B is wrong because Kalanithi Maran heads the Sun group of channels in southern India and is not the author. Option C is wrong because Ronnie Screwvala founded UTV and has written on building ventures, but not under this title. Option D is wrong because Uday Shankar is a broadcasting executive who led Star India, which makes him a plausible distractor but not the writer of this memoir.
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