Review again!

This day is special, this moment is special since i’m writing this post from the same room, sitting in same posture where I did write my first post a year ago. So much has happened in this one year. Have unearthed what is my passion,what makes me feel what is ‘feel’.

Since it is Vijaya dasami, my mother insists me to scan through the pages of books which she kept for pooja yesterday, I promised her that I'll read my subjects from morning till night but as usual my promise had turned into hopelessness (but I technically fulfilled my promise by ‘literally’ scanning through the pages of 8051 Microcontrollers like chitti robot!)

I would have prepared to study if I hadn't receive Half Girlfriend from my dear flipkart, which I preordered two months ago.

After posting the photos of my dearie (Oh no, I mean the ‘Half Girlfriend’ here not just ‘Girlfriend’) in FB and made the same as my Whatsapp DP and changed the status relating to that, I started reading Chetan, One of my inspirations.

Half-Girlfriend

When I first read about this in FB I got a feel that I won’t be disappointed, which immediately made to pre-order in Flipkart without second thought. My only pre-order if else to ‘Oath of Vayuputras’. He never makes a mistake in naming his books, as catchy as it could be. Will always join hands with a numeral too, ‘Five point someone’, ‘One night @ Call Centre’, ‘Three mistakes of my Life’, ‘Two states’, ‘Revolution 20-20’ and now ‘Half Girlfriend’. Mr. Ex-banker couldn’t forget his past job it seems, He ends up with numbers even in the love stories.

I have always portrayed Chetan Sahib as common man’s writer. He makes himself deserve that tag in this book too. Few say that he is not up to the standard, Could have been more like the pioneers of the west (I hardly believe that two, three not-so-common-words could make any work as standard one) I couldn’t bring up a better analogy than this, We can say that ‘purananooru’ and ‘agananooru’ as a standard one, both cover the life and culture of the King wherein ‘Silapathigaram’ and ‘Manimegalai’ portray the life of ordinary people. When there are so much of people available there to make you travel in the sci-fi and thrillers that make you imagine the unimaginable, it’s not wrong if one particular writer gives you Goosebumps with the stories of common man in common language.

Seri matterku povom!

Should applaud him for choosing ‘Bihar’ as the foldaway area for this story. The other book which discuss about Bihar or Biharians in detail is ‘The White Tiger’, to my knowledge. The rest of India should know what is happening in Dandak region and should travel there at least once to know about their level of comfort.

Description of a Bihari rural boy is very realistic and apt. Whatever the story may be but the way he present it to the audience is unmatchable ( IIM-A class theriyundhunga!). I need not comment about the story’s flow, it is the Ganges.

The female protagonist is from wealthy kinfolk in Delhi with her money obsessed relatives but she hardly have any impact of money on her plus she appears lonely in spite of the luxuries she has (ithellam barathiraja kalathu storynga!)

Almost in all his books the description for the heroine is used to be independent, feminist and of course with little (vachukalam) head weight (That’s what he used to see in his house every day, I assume :P ). Whenever he describes such personalities, I couldn’t stop imagining that I hang out with such sort of girl (Never mind, it is always a dream, it will always be a dream :P ). He is re-narrating what Mr.Barathy had told decades ago, ‘Pudhumai pen’.

Ahaan! Now he follows the trend of Mr.K.V.Anand, mocking himself in his book. It has to be very funny there but it didn’t sound that cool.

The few journals (to say in lay man's term-diary) which was written by the protagonist should be read carefully, It is very touching (I mean it) I don’t know how to interpret the first journal (if you get to read the book, you will know) the only part which is very sensitive in the whole text. Please do read it with utmost care or else you could miss the important one. It is a serious issue actually but I don’t know why Chetanji hadn’t poured much of the attention to make it more serious. In a country like India, when most of the reason for shyness of a child is due to this reason, he should have discussed it in elaborate way. Anyway I don’t want to break the door by disclosing that part here, read and you will know (you might). I’ll come back to this topic in a dedicated post for this matter.

I don’t know for how many novels he will still stick with his usual trend of love getting break and at last shuuuu! The rest is supposed to be a mystery. Where is the ‘novel’ idea in your ‘novels’ Sirji?

I seriously doubt that my favorite writer is writing novel with a main motive of making it as a movie. It’s more a screen play than an actual novel.

With a million of young readers behind him, he can do more justice to his works by not having the movie rights as his prime motive (FYI the movie rights for ‘Half Girlfriend’ has already been sold)

But Chetan is a Chetan is a Chetan! One cannot simply gaffe his romance scenes. It is so damn good that he make his readers live and relive it by the way he expresses that with his words. In Half Girlfriend, he handled that part with extra care, I don’t think that it is that easy to sham up like a bihari boy and handle a high class girl from the money obsessed Delhi family.

Finally what I say is, if I say anything at all

We can have fun with this Half girlfriend, but we cannot marry her :P