Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Book Review--The 3 mistakes of my life by Chetan Bhagat


After reading the first two books of Chetan Bhagat, I picked this third with pretty low expectations. Wanting to be Indias most 'loved' writer rather than admired one, I reckon he writes about what Indians will want to read about, with all the masala possible..romance, action, dreams,....and of course Cricket

This book tells the tale of three friends caught in the tumult of business, love, friendship, natural calamities, politics, religion,dreams and what not. Govind with his two friends opens a novel cricket store that offers all cricketing solutions ranging from merchandise to cricket coaching iin their little sleepy town. The story moves on to tell the tale of their discovery of Ali, a cricket whiz kid and the turn of events due to him.
Chetan Bhagat rants about how passionate Australians are about sports but how few brownie points a billion plus country earns in the arena of sports. He also shows the Indians’ disapproval of kids who are spurned by parents if they do not get high marks in exams which are the only things that matter somehow. He touches upon the religious and the political issues rampant in Gujrat. The story was readable, the narrative good. Well, looks like there might be one more film coming along his way after one night @ a call center.

3 comments:

  1. oh come on -- where was the book review??...the only part where u reviewed it was when u said "story was readable, the narrative good" !!! could have thrown some more to help us make our minds up whether to get the book or not...

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  2. the fourth mistake was reading the book and even paying for it. sheesh! i did not expect such a boom from him.

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  3. yeah this one is already being picked up by UTV for a motion picture!

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