It sucks…. Is how I would describe the book. I know it will be considered a success, best seller or whatever…. But the book is bad. Its juvenile, that’s what I feel. In the beginning of the book Bhagath says he has made fun of both the Punjabis and the Tamilians but sadly one feels that he has gone over the top making fun of South Indians. It is true that while making fun of Ananya’ family he is highlighting the ignorance of Punjabis.
God, n he is just not a fiction writer but also a preacher, maybe he wants to slowly make a transition towards being a self help guru. The gyan which he tries to give; we are Indians, we should not be divided, region is not important blha blha blha. It makes sense what he is trying to say but the way he says it is a pain.
The best part of the book is the end when his wife delivers twin… no there is nothing funny in delivering the twins but the shock he expresses when the doc says wait there is one more. For god sake our health care system is not that bad n I bet Ananya must have been visiting a good gyane and done her sonography, the point is nowadays even when Ananya was pregnant doc could tell whether the mother is carrying twins or not. Filmy very Filmy.
Somebody in my office aptly described Bhagath’s writing “He writes scripts for B grade Hindi movie in the form of a book.” The advantage of such writing is that the book becomes a best seller n some dumb director/producer turns it into a movie which comes n goes without a trace. The outcome is Bhagath gets publicity for his next book….. Honestly I had liked his first novel ‘Five Point Someone’, rest are simply awful. Read for the heck of it.
I stopped reading Chetan Bhagat after his second book, which was just awful, didn’t even think of trying the 3rd one and now after u’r review i’ll never read the 4th one too.
i liked the description “scripts for B grade hindi movies” so apt
By: Vidya on October 30, 2009
at 5:05 am