#Bookreview : One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat
Language: English
No. of pages: 272
Release Date : 08-Oct-2016
My Rating: 2 Out of 5
You may either love or hate Chetan bhagat’s books, but still, you would be rushing to the bookstore on the day of his new release. That’s the success of bhagat’s writing. His stories are always subjected to mixed reviews from critics roasting to reader’s appraisal; one Indian girl is likewise.
Radhika, a studious, nerdy, ambitious, IIM topper, finds a job as an investment banker and moved to new York. There she bumps into Debashish Sen, an advertising professional. After living together for two years, their relationship met a dead end; it made Radhika move/run half the way across the globe to honk kong. After a doomed one-year love affair with Neel Gupta, a partner at Goldman Sachs twice her age, is married with two kids. Radhika runs again, this time to London. After constant pestering from her mother, Radhika decides to “settle down” with British Gulati, an IT engineer at Facebook. At the venue of her big destination marriage both her exes stands in front of her saying “I wanna marry you.”
The story is told from a women’s view, what it is to be a woman in patriarchy society that's obsessed with white skin, how Indian parents look their son and daughter, Indian big fat marriages, and implying strong feminist ideas. But the problem is everything looks so fake and artificial. The whole book completely deprived of character development and consistency. Even the main character is one-dimensional. The sudden change of Debashish attitude is ludicrous, and the reaction from Radhika on seeing her exes after everything they did to her is completely (argh……. I’m looking for a word better than ridiculous). In a simple word, this book doesn’t make any sense.
The main theme of the book is supposed to be on feminism. But the way it’s told is annoying; I appreciated the way how Chetan looks at feminism that women are always were given an option or choice, but women don’t want to choose, they want both. But the story hadn't built up any emotional scenery to emphasize that point. And projecting all men as a licentious villain is just idiocy.
Chetan’s books are known for their intense love-making scenes, but explicit details given in this book are off-track from the theme. And feminism is symbolized by cunnilingus, that a man always goes down on women, really..? Chetan.., can’t you think of anything better to establish feminism?
Overall the story is very vague and predictable as a bad kollywood masala film. Chetan Bhagat has his way with the language, one of his impressive talent.But book felt like a bit amateurish.What I felt is that story is in the perspective of a guy who fantasizes as a girl who fantasizes her dream wedding.
Chetan bhagat's books have their hits and miss but never failed to be the bestseller, if you are a typical Chetan Bhagat fan and looking for a book to kill time; this is for you.
I’m quite disappointed, I love Chetan's work (except three mistakes of my life), he’s a good writer. Sure, his books are not literature masterpieces, but they were entertaining and gripping. He is the writer who knows what his reader needs. May I just don’t get the book because of this whole “female perspective” thing.
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