APOORVA ,ALAUKIK ,EKMEV IS ALL ABOUT THE POWER OF NOSTALGIA WHERE ITS AUTHOR YASHODHARA REMINISCES ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS KEEPING THE LEGACY LEFT BEHIND BY THE PEOPLE IN HER LIFE AT THE CENTER OF THE NARRATIVE . AS SHE WAS INDEED BLESSED TO BE BORN IN A FAMILY OF STALWARTS LIKE HER GRANDPARENTS DADASAHEB PHALKE AWARD WINNER BHALJI PENDHARKAR ,ACTOR-PRODUCER FROM THE SILENT- TALKIE ERA LEELABAI PENDHARKAR , FATHER FIGURES LIKE NARENDRA KATKAR –RANJIT DESAI –GAJANAN BHOSLE , HER MOTHER AUTHOR MADHAVI DESAI AND AUNT ACTOR SULOCHANA ; SHE HAD TO PEN DOWN HER MEMORIES AND THOUGHTS ABOUT THEM AND SHARE INSIGHTS ON HOW THEY CONTINUE TO INSPIRE ,MOTIVATE AND MENTOR HER AND MANY OF HER GENERATION . DURING THE JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE SHE MET AND BEFRIENDED PRIYA TENDULKAR , RAHI ANIL BARVE , SAMRUDDHI KERKAR , THEATER- FILM ACTOR DR KASHINATH GHANEKAR AIJAZ AHMED AND MANY MORE… THE STORIES OF THESE PERSONALITIES IN APOORVA … ARE THEREFORE RICH WITH PERSONAL HISTORY AND PROVIDE A SOURCE OF AFFIRMATION, HOPE, AND BELIEF THAT THEIR LEGACY WILL BE PRESERVED.
महान अभिनेत्री आणि माणूस म्हणूनही मोठ्या असणाऱ्या सुलोचनाबाई, अभिजात कविता लिहिणारी बाल कवयित्री समृद्धी केरकर, अभिनेत्री-लेखिका प्रिया तेंडुलकर, सामाजिक जाणीव असलेले, धडपडे नरेंद्र काटकर (यशोधराताईंचे वडील), लग्नानंतरही यशोधराताईंच्या शिक्षणाला पाठिंबा देणारे त्यांचे सासरे गजानन भोसले, साहित्य-कला क्षेत्रातील लोकांशी नातं जुळवायला शिकवणारे थोर साहित्यिक रणजित देसाई, एक मनस्वी कलावंत आणि तेवढाच मनस्वी माणूस डॉ. काशिनाथ घाणेकर, अतिवास्तववादी कथाविश्वातून भेटणारा राही अनिल बर्वे, अभिनेता प्रशांत दामले आणि त्यांचे कुटुंब...या आणि अन्य व्यक्तिरेखांचे अंतरंग आणि बहिरंग सूक्ष्मतेने उलगडणारा, यशोधरा काटकरांच्या लेखणीतून उतरलेला व्यक्तिचित्रसंग्रह.