#bookreview : vasantha kaala kutrangal (வஸந்த காலக் குற்றங்கள்) #spoiler
AUTHOR: Sujatha
GENRE: Thriller/mystery/crime
LANGUAGE: Tamizh
PAGES: 208
RELEASED DATE: Sept 26 2011, (originally published on a weekly during late 80's)
ISBN: 9788184935561
MY RATING: 4 OUT OF 5.
FUN FACT: For writing this book, sujatha stayed in jholkarpet police station for 14 days.
ONE LINE: It's a cocktail of COP story +sex+love+ psycho thriller +heist
This review is about a tamizh book "vasantha kaala kuthrangal" , the closest translation would be "crimes on spring".(spring as in spring season), its written by favorite author of all time "sujatha rangarajan".
This is a detailed review, it has SPOILERS
SYNOPSIS:
The story depicts three cases filed in a police station during a spring season.
1.Premalatha, wife of film distributor.she starts to get these obnoxious phone calls from a teenager sunil. sunil is psychotic,drug addict,spoiled of high class kid. he starts to harass premalatha verbally and blackmailed her to sleep with him.when she contacted the police, he went a step far and kidnapped her child.
2.Arumugam, a burglar who recently came out of prison has a brilliant plant for robbing a jewellery shop with the help of his call-girl friend followed by a ultimate heist and a hilarious episode of him being caught.
3.Prasana, he loves rita,daughter of ex-military officer agarwal, as their love was opposed by their parents, agarwal kept her daughter hidden from prasana, resulting in prasana's suicide's.
VASANTHA KAALA KUTHRANGAL:
The stories are narrated from authors perspective, the above three stories happening on same city, but they have no connection to each other.only thing they have in connection was assistant commissioner prabagar.
The book was written in the format that stories jump from scene to scene, so that we can know that all the things are happening simultaneously, it also adds the thrill to the story. i was hoping that all the stories are somehow going to collide with each other at some point of story, it was little disappointing.but the end was an satisfactory one(especially the epilogue).
Premalatha case was highlighted in the book, looking overall.prasana story was very short one.most of the characters lack development ,that's the problem when writing a story with many sub plots.most character left one-dimensional.
I m not complaining, take sunil for example,he has complex multidimensional character,but what about his parents, we have to understand that his father is having a affair and his mom had an affair in the past and possibly sexually molested her own child.
Arumugam and kumari relationship was just so beautiful that, i read that chapter thrice, each lines where amazing.a romance between a thief and call girl, there was a dialogue.
"to take her to my bed is easy, but asking her to marry me is the real challenge"
One of my favorite line was,
"he looked at his watch to check time, 5:47:44 showed the Japanese amusement"
Of course, i m translating it, it sounded better in tamizh,also the book in general depicts the true face of Indian judicial system.
The writing style is unique to sujatha alone, there lines from books,quotes,song lyrics,judicial laws, which doesn't fit in the narration but makes the story more relate-able, for example, in chapter 22, starts with
"the police should enforce law firmly and impartially without fear of favor.malice or vindictiveness.
the Mysore police manual vol 1 chapter 1."
and the story continues, there no need to mention the law in the chapter,but it helps us to understand more about the parabakar's ethics.these types of writing are unique to only sujatha.
OVERALL RATING:
A real page turner,typical sujatha book,a real treat for sujatha lovers,i completed in two days, I would recommend it people above age 12, due to the use of child abusive,sexual harassment,and drug usage.
---SIDHARTH
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