![]() He always dreamed of moving to London, and got his wish when his father sent him to boarding school there. Saladin, born Salahuddin Chamchawala, grew up in Bombay, where he was molested by an older man and had a troubled relationship with his father, Changez Chamchawala. Although Gibreel’s affair with Alleluia was brief, it inspired him to follow her to London to start a new life. Her ghost haunts Gibreel for the rest of the novel. ![]() Out of jealousy, his former lover, Rekha Merchant, committed suicide. Soon after his recovery, he met and fell in love with Alleluia Cone, an English mountain climber. This caused him to lose his faith in God. Shortly before the fateful flight, Gibreel had a bout with mental illness, but recovered. When his parents died, he moved in with a foster family, the patriarch of which eventually arranged for him to become an actor. Gibreel had a hardscrabble youth – he started working as a delivery boy as a teenager. The narrator gives some background on the two men. ![]() ![]() Two passengers plummet down to the water and survive: Gibreel Farishta, a famous Bollywood actor, and Saladin Chamcha, an obscure voice actor who lives in London. The jumbo jet Bostan explodes over the English Channel. ![]()
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