Books review - Chetan Bhagat's

Chetan Bhagat's books are tend to be simple, with linear narratives and variety in the story telling,  I personally like his kind of writing due to mainly the simplicity and creates the curiousity in reading and makes one stick to the book untill fininishes reading. They are not serious literature kind of novell but an entertainer like an bollywood masala movies, what else you need from a novell? There will be so many instances which will relate to life and feels 'oh this is so much true'. Well, here are some of reviews for his books which I have read.

Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT
I read this book after all his other books, but this was the first book by the author. Well I was very curious to read as many people had reviewed it as a good one. It's a story of three IIT Delhi students- Hari, Ryan and Alok who come from three different backgrounds. The book is about their years in IIT Delhi and how they cope with the pressures of studies, family and relationships. The story describes the ups and downs of their college life. Their low scores, the way they are perceived by students and professors on the account of their scores, their drinking habit, their strategy to beat the system and finally being caught stealing from their HODs cabin. All the wrong things of a protagonist, but it is never kind of justified in the book that one of the positiveness of the book. None of the charecters are perfect, yet intelligent, very obvious they have cracked the IIT entrance and grabbed a seat. but you come to like them that is the greatness of the Chetan Bhagat.
I would advise this book as a good read, even though if your not in to too much of book reading, this is going to be a good start.

One Night @ the Call Center
I just read this book since one of my friend gave it to me saying, just to try it out. Personally I felt not a great story or good ready, but I might be minority when I say this - a colleage of mine things it is a brilliant book, might be due to witty one liners. Typically Bhagat's charecters are 'looser type' but one can find hero in them.
It's all about the six apoeple who work for a call center in the suburbs of national capital of india. Story was narrated to Chetan by a co-passenger in a train, after later gets the commitment from the autor to make it to a novell. Cast that includes someone stuck in a bad marriage (with a cheating husband to boot), a wannabe model who sleeps her way to the assignment she never gets, a Casanova who secretly pines for the model, a jargon-spewing boss who's as slimy as he's sleazy, and a 'Military Uncle' who, by now, should be expected, in this retinue of caricatures, to have his dirty secret-- having to earn a living because he's thrown out by his son and daughter-in-law.
By way of a plot, the summerise to do a 'day in the life of', but this is where the story falls apart. The love story gone awry, the secret trysts in flashbacks, the underhand attempts to sell out the company, and its 'heroic' saving by these protagonists. The perception of a call center folks looking at a software guy (the Microsoft guy) seems witty and sometimes aweful for techies, but goes well with the story line. One feels about so much happening in one night but sheer mechanics of ending of backgroud has ended the story well.


The 3 Mistakes of My Life is Chetan's third book, about cricket, religious politics and rebellious love. Fortunately of unfortunately this has nothing to do with Mr. Bhagat's life in itself. It's about three friedns get cought in a leagle tangle to earn some money and ofcourse only some fame, how they get out of it or sacrifices they have to do to come out of it. I personally feel Bhagat has touched lot of problems modern india or latest india is facing, he might not explain the problems directly but the protagonists themselves reveales as story begans to unviel. Few of them are expensive higher education system, lack of facilities in small towns of india, caste, religion, hypocrisy amoug politicos, public and others alike, drift in the religion that can affect the youth talent, politics in the cricket, lack of passion amoung indian and just want to make quick buck The charecters as just you and me and he makes one of the point very clear we indian live with all these and life ticks happily.
One thing about this book or about he Bhagat's writing is the humour along with the witty onliners and comparisions yet they will be an inclination towards a problem and speaking out to the public and having the opinion read out to the larger audiences.

2 States - The Story Of My Marriage, Chetan Bhagat's most recent book4. 2 States -
The Story Of My Marriage, is about how love marriages work in India and is again typical of him in the first person. It is like his first book Five Point Someone supposed to be inspired by his own life.
I liked his initial quote - 'Around world, boy loves girl and girl loves boy and they get married, but india its much beyond that'
The initial fifty pages of the book are super quick, girl meets boy, moves in with him, love each other, have sex etc, they get their degrees & jobs etc. He describes so much about Ananya that I googled Bhagat couples to find out how they look like :) . The way the South Indian Vs. North Indian angle is presented is something which is very predictable. But then as a reader there would be many points where you be like “oh this is so true” and I think that’s where lies the strength of Bhagat.
I would recommend this book as good read, I personally felt it has lot of charecterness, feelings and so much of positiveness in the story.