Book review: One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat, the Salman Khan of Indian publishing industry and the Rakhi Sawant of Indian literary world launched his new masterpiece One Indian Girl, on first of October, 2016. 

You can view a detailed video review on my YouTube video blog channel Hard Reads. 

A typical Chetan Bhagat novel consists of

• A desperate male protagonist
• A hot and bold girl who eventually sleeps with him
• IIM/IIT fascination.
• A sex scene.

But this book is quite different. He has taken a huge literary leap in this book, from a desperate male protagonist to a desperate female protagonist.

The storyline begins in a very innovative fashion. It features a grand destination wedding in Goa, an arranged marriage where the bride's ex-boyfriends arrive realising that they are still in love with her. An idea never ever depicted in any Bollywood movie. Never.

Then we are taken to New York where he fell in love with the first boy. She breaks up with him after two years and goes to Hong Kong to forget her love.

In Honk Kong she again falls in love, this time with a married guy. After breaking up with him she goes to London. 

Now, coming back to Goa, she has to make a choice between the Hong Kong guy, the New York guy and her groom, the guy she met via shadi.com.

Eventually, she chooses neither and cancels the wedding. After which she goes on a long world tour. A cancelled wedding and a long tour, never depicted in any Bollywood movie. Not even in Queen. 

Words of wisdom from the book:

Mr Bhagat's literary advent had resulted into some mind-blowing monologues and quotes. In this novel too he stood up on the expectations and here are few lines from the book:

• Expensive underwear can make any women look sexy.
  
  
• ...whose breasts weren’t the size of football, as Punjabi men prefer.
• ...Tu ghanti Big Ben di
  
• Pura London Thumakda
• If  the British had seen this tribute to London, they would never have colonised us.
  (Or maybe if they've seen what you're doing to their language!)

Love Making:

Chetan Bhagat is a very sensible writer as far as the depiction of love making and the aftermath of it is concerned.

Here are a few words epic comparisons we see in the book. These lines follow the erotic passages.

• So, how did I feel after having sex for the first time? Well, you know how you sometimes wait for a big Salman or Shah Rukh movie for months and then it finally arrives? You go for the first day first show, and then the movie is not bad, but no so great either.
• If Debu was French Fries, this was a gourmet six course meal.

And:

The book is filled with unnecessary reference to iPhone, Apple store, Marriot hotel and everything that could start with Marriot. Everything and anything that can add a bit of glamour to the story is added in the book. The book also features the term super slut, What the hell does it mean?

The protagonist calls herself a feminist and from all the above it is quite clear that she didn't know what feminism is about.

To wrap this up, I'll just give few reasons why one should not miss the chance of buying this book.

Reasons to buy the book:

1. It’s cheap.
2.  You can falsely believe that you’re improving your English.
3. It’s cheap.
4. You can add reading in your hobbies. You can even call yourself an avid reader.
5. It’s cheap.

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