Review on Did She Love Me?

Mr. Jyotirmoy Mazdumdar, hails from Guwahati, the far end at north-east of India. He is doing his engineering from SRM University, NCR (Delhi) and is very fond of music, poetry and blogging; creative indeed. At a young age of 19 years, Mr. Mazumdar authored ‘Did She Love Me?’. The book comes with ‘A National Bestseller’ tag, almost impossible for the first imprint of any book. So let’s find out what made this book bestseller even before its release.

Do you think Career is the most important thing of everyone’s life?
Do you think love has boundaries and restrictions?
Would you go on to an unknown place for someone you hardly know?
Do you think you can chase your dreams and your love together?

Can love make you forget things you thought were the most important in your life?
Yes, Love can change your life. In today’s modern world,
Yes: You can forget your dreams and fall in love.
He is a guy who wants to go beyond his limits to crack IIT, away from his parents away from the world. But he falls in love. Can his friends save his ship from sinking or has it already sunk? Can he achieve his dreams or does love become his new goal?

The cover jacket is good, and designed very well. After reading the back blurb, which reveals nothing about the characters but gives a rough picture of plot. The first impression was not good.

‘Did She Love Me?’ is the story of Jayrish, son of a millionaire, who wants to stand out of the crowd by chasing his ultimate dream- IIT. He rebels to fulfill his Delhi, and moves to Delhi to join JEE coaching. He is a self proclaimed half-lunatic stud and stands nowhere near the maudlin emotion called love. But it’s a novel, and therefore, there are plenty of attempted twists. He makes two best friends, and falls in love with Shweta, almost within a few minutes of first meeting her. Twist #2: She is already committed.

Twist #3: ‘True love finds the way to bring lovers together!’ After a lot of struggle, she falls for him too and their love story embarks on a new path of life. In the meanwhile, Jayrish faces some of his happiest moments of life, some of the saddest too, but with a desperate urge to be in love and achieve his career’s main objective, he lives through all of them.

Mazumdar is young, and that is painfully evident in his undeveloped writing. Even if I forget the age factor for a while, there is poor grammar, absolutely no editing, conversations without context, no time constraint at all, and cheerful use of the sms-lingo throughout the book. It’s almost as bad as the first draft of any manuscript.

On a positive side, some beautifully penned poems were nice to read, and Mr. Mazumdar gave his heart and soul to these poems. He portrayed the protagonist, Jayrish, very strongly and other characters played their part very well too. Choosing Delhi as backdrop of the story is wisest thing Mr. Mazumdar did. The description of places is really authentic. Young readers will find Jayrish’s antics cute.

The plot is not very original. It follows a predictable plot line of infatuation, love, proposal, initial rejection, dramatic heartbreak, heartwarming acceptance, immense love, and overdo of cheesy dialogues. Some may try to be a little more dramatic, and give it a sad ending instead. That’s the major point of differentiating these stories. Here I won’t spoil by telling which one it is, but it does follow the same suit.

To sum up, I would say that if you are looking for a well written novel with a unique love story, I would suggest you to skip this.

If Mr. Mazumdar is planning to write another book, I wish him the very best of luck, and suggest him to look more attentively into thought framing and editing department.

Reviewing LOVE, LIFE AND LUST by Pritesh Bhosale

FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN FRIENDSHIP, RELATIONSHIP , ...

This is the debut novel by  Pritesh Bhosale… I got attracted to the title of book and ordered it from flip-kart.

This is a story about commitment, relationship, love & most important friendship and bonding between  - Adhi, Dhananjay &Maitreya who meet as acquaintances, but became best  buddies during the process of time….. They also get  'Priya'  as an indispensable part of their friendship.

The story of all these characters moves further with different twists and turns by virtue of destiny,   their relationships, their lives, their love, and how this love takes the form of lust..…. To know how and what one has to read ‘Love, Life And Lust’.

Now my Positive viewpoints:

This is the debut novel of Pritesh Bhosale ..who has done a good job and justification to this story. He has not created any chaotic script or over exposure of one character and the, script is balanced and gives justice to each character.

The author has expressed the friendship of Adhi, Dhananjay, and Maitreya & Priya very well. On one hand where Maitreya is the one who can do anything for his friends on other hand Abhi is the one from whom his best buddy is alcohol. Whereas Priya is the person who would face everything in life with confidence and courage.

Also the character of Gulab is been portrayed well. The phrases used by author are also good.

A real good effort done by author as this is his first book..and as it is unpredictable , it urges you to keep reading the book and you cannot stop yourself till you complete the book.

Final words:

Overall if asked I would say...this is a good job done by Author (Pritesh Bhosale)

My first meet with Sneh

It was a beautiful evening in the Sahara States, the 8th day of Dussehra. I was there with my friends, just soaking in the lights, the festivities, the energy all around… and then, something unforgettable happened.

That was the first time I saw her. The first time she saw me.

She wore a red dress that lit up the night. Her skin glowed fair under the lights, but it was her smile—subtle yet magnetic—that held something incredibly special. Her long eyelashes curled gently at the ends, the kind you’d imagine a princess dreaming of. Kajal rimmed her eyes, as if to guard her beauty from the world’s evils. Her cute little nose twitched slightly every time she frowned. And her hair—black, flowing, effortlessly perfect.

That was Sneh. And that day, I understood what people meant by love at first sight.

Review Zero Percentile

Recently finished reading Neeraj Chhibba’s Zero Percentile, an interesting book that details Russian culture and author’s experience learning engineering in Russia. Zero percentile is about an IIT aspirant who misses writing IIT-JEE due to a road accident and gets an opportunity to do his graduation in Russia, his experiences and explorations in Russia during his engineering studies there. (This is summed up by the tag-line-Missed IIT, Kissed Russia).

Book starts with lead character (Pankaj) ’s narration of his birth, his family, childhood days, education and so on. Though narration was good, it got boring after a while and I jumped directly to last few pages of the book, wherein Pankaj tries to convince his Russian friend Sveta to come to India with him. With that, I thought for a moment that this book has nothing interesting and kept it aside for a while and got busy with other work.

However during my recent travel I opened it up again, started reading where I’d abandoned in the middle. Book started getting interesting with Pankaj’s IIT-JEE prep plans, his tie up with senior and junior sirs in running JEE training institute, unfortunate accident and so on. Suddenly Pankaj gets an invite to do his engineering in Russia and from there readers get to feel what it is to go to an unknown country with unknown language for studies (and more importantly study the Russian language first and then study engineering in Russian language)

Just like CB’s Five point someone, here also book explains how students gave more importance to have a fun filled life than focusing on studies. Pressures back home, urge to study well but hurdles and distractions on the path, challenges and opportunities that came their way when Russian economy started opening up and Asian businessmen ventured into Russia with help from Asian students there all these aspects give good insight about Russia, something most of us would have never known otherwise.

I don’t have any complaints or remarks against the book, though I felt initial 50 pages could have been summed up little faster to take the reading to the core of the book (life in Russia). But then, good introduction and background is also essential for better understanding, so can’t really complain. Story is well weaved with no loose threads. Revolves fully around life of Pankaj around his family, school friends, hostel room mates and others. Also connects well with Sikh Riots, World wars and other facts. We all can take home some real life practical tips from various circumstances Pankaj went through and decisions (and risks) he took.

Review of Love, Life & all that jazz.....

I love its tittle….it has a poetic ring to it plus the die hard romantic in me loves it 

Its a book about 4 college friends – Tania, Sameer, Vikram and Tanveer.. The story begins when they have just finished college and start their careers…

Tania and Sameer are having a steady relationship when he decides to go to UK for further studies and Tania starts a business with Ankur… Needless to say the relation goes through a turmoil…. But the question is will it survive the long distance?

On the other hand Tanveer who comes from a small town and a very poor family has started his job in a multinational bank with the most horrible boss one could have and the loveliest parsi girl as a housemate… will his small time thinking let him reach out to the girl who he has fallen in love with or will he just be a puppet in his cruel boss’s hand…

Vikram the casinova and the rich dad’s son in the novel is having an affair with a wanna be model, will he be able to handle the media attention that she gets? What will make a casinova like vikram change his attitude towards life?

And while all this is happening what happens to the friendships? Will they all ever come together as friends or will their life make them apart?

This book is primarily about relationships in the current context and that is what I liked about it. Their is no pretence in accepting that todays generation has moved ahead when it comes to relationships. We dont think like our parents used to, the book reflects the modern youth in a way which is real. There were part of the books I could totally relate. And that is what I really like about the book

What i didnt like about the book… Well its too predictable. U tend to know whats coming next but than may be its about our minds  My other problem with the book was (as usual) the grammatical errors and editing here and there but I believe thats been corrected in the next edition…

All in all I would say its a good time pass breezy read… A perfect for a flight or train read may be 

Rating 3/5

Book Love Life and All that Jazz

Authors Ahmed Faiyaz

Price Rs 150/-

Love @ facebook a writing of Nikita Singh

The days when a girl meets boy near trees or in garden to falling in love is just an imagining story now. The coming generation is now getting global and fall in love globally without seeing each other, thanks to massive growth in social networks.

Whenever social networking is being talked, Facebook twinkles on your head naturally. And now a new book has been released which is  totally based on love on facebook. The name of book is Love @facebook by Nikita Singh. Let’s have an outline of the book.

Vatsala Rathore, a nineteen year old, falls in love with Ronit Oberoi – a VJ and an upcoming actor - on Facebook. The crush, innocent initially, soon develops into love and promptly gets converted into obsession. And why can’t it be as both of them are falling for eachother.

Ankit Rai, who masters the art of selflessness, has been besotted by Vatsala for four years now. But will Vatsala finally notice?

Girls wait for their Prince Charmings all their life. Vatsala has two. Will she ever be able to decide who “the one” for her is?

The book is available to buy  for 150/- INR.

REVIEW ON OFF COURSE I LOVE YOU..! TILL I FIND SOMEONE BETTER!

Well...I started reading this book last winter but left after reading some initial pages that I found full of some B-grade movie kind of stuff.....But now it is March 2012 & I have grown my MIND to somewhat more than before! Yes . Now I am old enough to think about the THINGS(or truly saying I have to!) and what Durjoy Dutta and Maanvi Ahuja have written seems to be happening everywhere!(sorry if you still living in some childhood!)

The whole story orbits around Deb, his love affairs,his friends and Delhi locations.

I read the whole book except that half page where Debashish explains those 25 sheets in front of his seniors and puke off the same lines as told by his best friend after college , Amit.

I think Amit is the only good thing that happens with him. Before that he had a long (but not too long..heh) list of night outs,fishing, breakups and a damn bad college life! And technically he F^^^ed his engineering degree for girls!

A must read but still I cant understand some pages specially: Deb finally gets a stable job and that too as a junior to Avantika, what would be their life after 5-6 years; the costume event! ; Vernita proves to be a girly character at the last night of college(k I have no doubt she is but not that typical kind of girl!);and character of Avantika's ex; and also how can Avantika become a black chapter of her boyfriends' life?

Books starts with Samriti, an average typical Indian girl. Page 161 ends with some unexpected and harsh break up with Avantika with whom he had the best time of his life, who was his first love in the 8 years life of puberty and with whom he wanted to spend the next 80 years of his life! And at last page......................ohk buddies I am not going to tell the end,page 261.

Just grab a copy and read it, afterall it will just cost you Rs. 100 only!!!!

P.S will meet you again with some book or movie reviews of course....bye till then!!!!