Calcutta, Dec 27 :     What happens when India?s longest-serving chief minister meets a multi-millionaire NRI physicist? Well, they take a ?Roman Holiday?. That?s almost what transpired at Writer?s Buildings on Monday when Mani Lal Bhaumik dropped in to meet Jyoti Basu. The 68-year-old physicist-cum-real estate baron, based in California, and the 86-year-old Marxist chief minister found a curious common link: Eddie Albert, the actor who played the role of the photographer in the Hollywood classic of the 60s, Roman Holiday. While leafing through Bhaumik?s biography, Manikanchan, Basu paused at Albert?s picture. ?I know him. I saw the film,? he observed with a smile. Bhaumik went on to explain that the man who was hardly noticed in the Gregory Peck-Audrey Hepburn starrer was, in fact, one of his ?closest friends?, someone he has dinner with ?every other day? in Bel Air. Basu was in a buoyant mood while hosting Bhaumik, who arrived at the chief minister?s official chamber around noon, accompanied by long-time associate Liza Gula and Sadhan Datta of DCL. After gifting the biography, written in Bengali, to Basu, the man best known for his pioneering work in the field of laser technology, quickly ran the octogenarian chief minister through his rags-to-riches story ? from Tamluk to Bel Air. ?All this is very good... Our students will be inspired by you. But it would have been better if you had your biography published in English. Our students who go in for higher studies here and abroad are more at home with the English language,? Basu told Bhaumik. The scientist, who holds 12 patents related to Excimer laser, has a booming real estate business in the US, and has been featured in the exclusive TV show, Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous, assured Jyotibabu that a biography in English, titled In Quantum Leaps, will soon be published by Harper Collins.