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I too have a tale.. to tell
Nov 27, 2010 05:48 AM 9646 Views
(Updated Nov 27, 2010 05:50 AM)

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Note: I got it in exchanged with "Jabse" and Rs. 20


The main cover page with the comment on top "Simple, honest and touching - N.R.Narayana Murthy" Amazed! I didn't know the authenticity of the comment. Another book by Srishti Publications, New Delhi and written by Ravinder Singh, named as "I too had a love story", I will say "Chetan Bhagat copied to the full, Humorous, Emotional with a sad end, so simple language, love quotient full upto the brim, probable memoir, but just no plot, brand names again referred, vulgar to a bit and shaadi.com advertised."


About the Author: There is no information whatsoever on the book's author Ravinder Singh, although it has a nice foreword by Shaadi.com CMD and Founder Anupam Mittal, and by reading it looks like Ravinder's own memoir (can't confirm), and I didn't googled any info on the author.


About the Plot: Four Friends Ravin, Manpreet, Amardeep and Happy decide at the reunion to try their profiles at matrimonial site Shaadi.com, and Ravin actually followed the path, Got a girl Khushi, and both fall in love with each other, their parents agreed to their marriage easily, but destiny has some other plans, and Khushi met with an accident, and just before their engagement, she died, leaving a hole in Ravin's life.


The Positives: 1. A very simple common-man's language is used, and no extra effort is tried by the author to get a recognition between literature genious, unlike the Saha.




  1. Now, this can be considered as a Love story, although here the love story started first through the Shaadi.com website, all love situations well dealt, humorous, and all the emotions, plus the body contacts also included to the kisses and touches.




  2. There was a situation, where Ravin's explained his anxiety of love, when he was for the first time meeting Khushi's family members, through Mind and Heart dialogue. Mind is saying something else, while Heart is saying something else. It was written nicely.




  3. Supernatural elements are put at the end, like he saw the girl chatting to him, just before losing her life, where her form talked and told him to continue with a good life thereafter, and also told him that she didn't have much time.




  4. The chapter titles are simple (one-word somewhere) and direct-to-the-point.




  5. The book make you smile in the starting, even let you remember your's special while reading. In the last chapter, it makes you cry, since every emotions is covered beautifully.






The Negatives: 1. Here, Chetan Bhagat is copied to the core, the story is written in the first person, just like you find in Chetan's novel. Simple language, humor, and the style totally copied, which Saha tried, but failed. It's kind of "2 states", just with the sad end, and no parent-problem.




  1. Again, movies inspiration here as well. May be it can be a real-faced situation but looks similar to many scenes, and looks somewhat a bit unnatural. Like, there was a se*-pleasure-feeling conversation between the girl and the boy (like American Pie side-pair talking), and that too in the very starting itself. Here too, they fatafat fall into love, although they continued their love till the end of the novel. Their love story started like "Sirf Tum" pair, just a bit techno-advanced, like they used e-mails, websites, chatting and Graham Bell's invention - the phone, and not the hand-written letters. In the ending a scene totally copied from Shahid-Amrita's Vivah, where the doctor appreciates the hero that he stands by his struggling fiance, when she is passing through her ordeal after the serious accident.




  2. There are too many coincidences, which are hard to believe. Both are software engineers, common habits, doing MBA, and so on. Yes, its seems practical, but the author exaggerated a bit more.




  3. Some vulgar incidents are used at places.




  4. Shaadi.com is fully advertised here, the only way of their meeting. Also, other brands are mentioned. I don't know why the brand names are required, did they are unable to bring humor without using those names. Although not used to the extent which Saha did.




  5. This book was again by Srishti Publications, and after reading SR Saha, I will always add this point in the negatives, don't know why. The author didn't know what is Chameleons! (HAAN!)




  6. Last, but not the least is no-story. They find each other, continued love, and then when engagement is going to happen, the girl is met with an accident and died. Story ends.






Initially, I was thinking whether I should recommend it to anybody or not. First I think NO, with 2/5 rating, then it changes to YES with 2/5 rating. But finally after getting emotionally touched, I stuck to YES with 3/5 rating. If anybody can read Chetan Bhagat, this one as well, yes he was the first-one to start the pattern...


A much better book than the hyped lusture-lacked SR SAHA's "Jabse", since "it makes you smile and you cry with it."


Ruchir.


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