Monday, December 14, 2009

The magic of Chetan Bhagat

Few novels take you to unimaginable worlds, few impart knowledge, few make you feel why you ever chose to read them and few make you think about them for weeks together and smile, when in solitude. because they have a correlation with your life somewhere. Writing a novel is different from writing an interesting novel. Only in few novels do you put yourself in the place of the main character and read on.
Chetan Bhagat has this gift of writing novels that can reach people faster and falls under the category of writers who write for pleasure, unlike others who write for booker or pulitzer. I certainly agree that his style of writing doesn't have a rich vocabulary or an impeccable grammar. But, who cares! Do you go to a theater with an expectation of learning something from the movie that you are going to watch? It's just to entertain you, to make you feel lighter, to de-stress you. Same is the case with novels. After all, reading is for pleasure. And, I bet my shoes, every boy who reads his novel will enjoy it, especially his latest release - 2 states.
His success can also be attributed to the story line. It's real. There is no need of creating a story from scratch. It's already there. You just have to add gloss to it. And when the story by itself is interesting, your work becomes simpler. So, I think Chetan is lucky in that aspect.
Something very strange about his new novel is that, the story is old, plain, very much guessable and yet interesting. It might be because of IIMA or because of Chennai or because of Ananya. I don't know. Might be the magic of Chetan Bhagat.......

P.S : I feel this isn't a well written post. Chetan deserves more. Will edit it, if needed.

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