The Coffee And The Cola

 By 

Kapil Muzumdar

The author, kapil Muzumdar, claims to be fascinated by human behavior, especially, by the complexity of emotions in women.

The synopsis of the  book reminded me of one such Indian author, who specialized in writing about the fairer gender, in his words. Yes, I am talking about Khushwant Singh, who is very well known for his masterpiece, Train To Pakistan. 

So, do we have another Khushwant Singh in making? Let's see.

Storyline

The story follows life of Rahul, who falls in love with two Women. First is of the Coffee type and other of the Cola type. 

He first meets the Coffee girl in a coffee shop after meeting her online on a matrimony site. They like each other, get along and eventually fall in love. When she moves to Singapore for six months against his wish, some bitterness is added in their relationship. 

During this time Rahul meets another girl, who is Cola type, i .e she is a modern, hot and sexy. Unlike the coffee girl, she is very much open to physical intimacy before marriage. A thing that attracted Rahul. 

At this point of time I anticipated the story to be a predictable one, where Rahul will eventually realize with whom he is in love with and they will live happily ever after, like they do in all the shitty stories. But he ending wasn't bad. The author ended the book in a very good fashion, not disappointing his readers. 

Narration

Narration was the flaw I found in the book. The author has a character dedicated to himself, where he as the protagonist's confident. A person who got everything correct, who was wise and what not. 

The impression created by this wasn't effective and rather made the author seem vain. Maybe the author could improvise this in his next project.

In A Nutshell

I would give three and a half stars to the book, mostly because it was a fresh read and wasn't much stereotypical as far as the story is concerned.


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