Prologue:
This Diwali was’t as great to me as it was in the prior years…. (Due to my misunderstanding with my dad and it’s a separate story, which I will blog later)
Somehow I was forced to spend the “festival of lights” only with Chetan Bhagat’s fourth book “2 States – The Story of my Marriage”
(Ordered this book from hindushopping.com – The actual cost itself is Rs. 95 only, but the so-called marketing minds, made the book’s price for Rs. 59 alone (plus shipment charges of Rs. 35) which summed up to Rs. 94. – Huff! I saved Re. 1.)
The Review:
Seems that Chetan has made it clear this time to deliver some thing more personal from his own life. Love stories are always good to hear and read (I bet those who don’t even love or fell in love… will love to read such stuffs)
Not a Typical love story… But some thing set around the brainy people of the Country (The IIM’s). A North Indian Boy, falling in love with a South Indian Girl (I’m sure the author need’t have to put additional research to make the plot interesting)
To be more specific, it is like our routine Indian love story, with many expected (very few unexpected) things.
Though not as a whole, I enjoyed the books in parts such as, the proposal made my Krish to whole of Ananya’s family, the music concert, the whole Punjabi stints and the father-son relationship.
But what irked me a lot was
*) the use of racist comments (which he uses very often and claims that he works for National Integration)
*) the use of very degraded tamil words in a couple of places(We can easily say F**k in english, but the same when we mean it in our local slang, it is jus as awkward as our very own koovam), it would have been better, if he has avoided it.
Expectations may lead to disappointments...
Catch you all later, with some good reviews....
Epilogue
Needless to say, this Diwali wasn't good to me by ALL means.
