In spite reading of many half novels, it is a great experience to read one the famous and
most popular writer of India, Chetan Bhagat'S ' Half Girlfriend '. He is the best selling author and news columnist. in English language in India. Why Chetan Bhagat'S novels are so popular and best seller in top of the list. The accurate reason can be applied that his novels are not as long as the others novelists publication. His novels are short having with simple language so that even a truck driver can be easily pour his interest while he was reading. The most interesting thing about his novel is that a person imagines his/herself while it was reading by them. Many Bollywood movie are filmed from his novel like wise 3 idiots is inspired from his novel 'Five Point Someone', 'Hello from 'One Night @the call centear, 2states-2states and now upcoming Bollywood movie 'Half Girlfriend' inspired from his 'Half Girlfriend'.
It is so called sentence by the people who already in love or still waiting for it " Love is Blind". That's is somehow wrong interpreted. Without seeing physical beauty nobody dare to call its true love because everyone wants good in their lives. Human being is selfish animal rather than social animal except some people. They always waiting for their good. That's is human nature and reality as well. Now let me turn you at the story of half girlfriend.
The
story starts with Chetan Bhagat’s style of writing prologue and epilogue and
story within the story.
The novel is dealing with the contemporary
issues of India like corruption, politics in the field of
education and he quietly differentiates the conflict between high cultured
society ( Delhi) and Low cultured society ( Damraon, Bihar). The
entire novel is a love story of Madhav Jha and Riya Somani. Madhav Jha is a typical character of a royal king family who is very weak in speaking English as the many of Indians have. Riya Somani is a beautiful girl having a high cultured and one the richest Marwari
family in Delhi. The phenomenas around this novel holding one's interest and not to leave them easily. Good love story but I am quite anxious why Indian Have love stories only ? In 2 States we found a love story same thing is going to appear in this movie as well so, why don't we come out from Love story. From his last two movies can we say that Chetan Bhagat has awared himself believing that Indian youth only interested in love story ? Let me come over my point.
The novel enveloped by certain radical issue of family by showing our real life story and these two characters expressing the
condition and problems of real life like the Girl speaks English better than
the boy and reviling the picture of rich class people, their traditions, their
culture, and their parties and their behavior with the poor villager’s peoples.
I
cant put this novel aside while reading it but begging of the novel it seems
boring because the love story starts with the same way as we see in many Bollywood
movies. In such movies we can see the in first eyesight hero and heroines fall
in love with each others. How strange? In first eyesight?
Examples of such movies like ‘Sathiya’
in which Vivek Oboroy and Rani Mukhejee, in first
eyesight they fall in love with each others and some others movie like ‘Muje kuch kehna
hai’ ‘
kuch kuch hota hai’ Dil to pagal hai’ etc.
Madhav
Jha has also such Bollywood start of love when he sees the world beautiful girl
Riya Somani is playing basket ball. In the first eyesight he falls in love with
her. How bullshit it!
People
generally say that love is blind. But after seeing and hearing many things
about love I deconstructed the definition that “love is blind” It’s blind but when the lovers don’t in search
of comparison like rich and poor, culture, caste etc. and if
they in search of such comparison then it’s not a true love. Generally we can
see a boy always prefers to love with a girl who is most beautiful and lovely
personality as the girl also does the same.
But
I never ever see in my life that a girl falls in love with a footpath boy or a
boy falls in love with a girl who is not beautiful and rich. It is human nature
that everybody prefers for a good and everybody has desire to get something
which is good from others. It’s not necessary that two lovers should have to
meet in the end of their love story. There is no any kind of acceptation in
love that my love only can be successful if he/ she get their partners. There
must be sacrifice for your family, for your dears who love you and if you do
the same then its great achievement not for yours but for your love also. So
sacrifice should be there to remain your love live.
Many
times I see people who say bad words when they don’t get their love. I want to tell that love is the thing which
grows confidence, in love there should be an attachment, an open mind and understanding
which make a person always ready for sacrifice and that is the most important
thing. So not taking much about love I turn in the region of the novel.
So
in this novel the “Half Girlfriend” Chetan Bhagat has extremely well pointed
out the best example of love story by crating the character of Madhav Jha who did
a lot to achieve his love and Riya Somani also have sacrificial nature to make Madhav happy in his life.
“To sacrifice for someone that is the most
important thing in love.”
Chetan
Bhagat also gives the real picture of High class society vs. low
class society when Madhav goes to Riya’s birthday and Riya
introduces Madhav to her parents at that time Riya’s father asking to Madhav “what
Madhav? (What is your surname?) Its indirect question to ask Madhav
about his caste and in India people always come to know form their Surname its
good technique to know about somebody’s caste.
Can we say India
come out from the problems of caste system in now days?
We
speak that India is great but in one sense it has the same
problem as we had before we got independence and we still live in a
mentality of caste, religion and rich- poor.
I memorize the novel “The White
Tiger” by Aravin Adiga in which Balram says that only
“For this land, India has never been
free. First the Muslims, then the British bossed us around. In 1947 the British
left, but only a moron would think that we became free then”.
Chetan
Bhagat also distinguished the difference between Rich vs. Poor when
Madhav saying about Rohan (the richest businessman in London
“When rich guys say something, girls
find it extraordinary funny”
Its
reality of today world that when a great personality say something it becomes a
quotation but when common man say
something at that people utter that he/she is fool always talk about nonsense.
Madhav inner thinking makes him aware about
the rich people’s style of celebrating parties, their food, wine, music,
dancing with women and he thinks that in Damroan man and women can’t dance like
this.
Every
love story has different twist and the same
things also goes around between Madhav
and Riya as Madhav proposed to Riya and her refusal, her invitation to Madhav
to come her marriage with Rohan and Madhav thinks that her invitation card
should throw in the dustbin. The things go around as the simple love story of
everyone. Madhav also remarks about poverty that the poor need education
otherwise they called as the ‘Loser’.
They don’t have future but those who
live in Aurangzeb road (Riya) in Delhi
can do whatever in life as they are rich. He also pointed out the state of mind
of rich regarding poor that whenever they don’t understand the villagers they
call them uneducated and old fashioned.
Act 2 Dumraon, Bihar.
After
his breakup with Riya, Madhav comes at his hometown where he can’t forget his
love as his memories that are connected with Basketball as he usually played
with Riya. So in every moment he remembers Riya as he knows that she is married
now.
Madhav
social efforts come out when he does something for his village school. Here,
also chetan Bhagat criticizing on politics and corruption of India like the
politician and corrupted man, MLA, Mr. Ojha who chewed the grant of his village
and school. There is no any toilet in
the school. Madhav has to give a speech because of MLA Ojha promised him to
white wash the school otherwise the government hasn’t any grant for it and it gives a actual picture that politician
only do the works when there is a profit of them.
But
Madhav has shocking experience when he meets the Sarpanch of his village requesting
for to join their children for school at that time the sarpanch answering to
Madhav “Schools are for reach peoples” and
because of this state of mind of people now a days in India we can see Bihar is at the
last position in India in Education field.
Similarities in chetan Bhagat’s novel:
Many
things in Chetan Bhagat’s
novels can be seen as the same as his
previous novel like in the “One night @t
the call center he mentioned the
name of Microsoft owner Bill Gates and here in this novel also he is the
chief guest in Dumraon’ school.
I
smiled when I see in his novels that boy’s mother has always problems with
girl. In the “2
States” the hero, krish’s
(Arjun kapoor) mother has problems with
heroine (Alia Bhatt) similar way in this
novel also Madhav’s mother has problem with Riya.
Madhav
gives an incredible speech in English when Bill Gates comes as the chief guest
and at that time he proves that English is easy to learn if we have self
confidence. I remembered the speech of Barac Obama
when he recently came in India
and starts his speech with Indians tradition “
Namastey” like the same way Bill Gates also starts
his speech with “Namastey”.
I
noticed one thing while reading Riya’s generals its shows that how rich peoples
have only run behind money as they have no any feelings for their own child
also. When Riya comes form London
to her parents as she married with Rohan and his biting her many times. When
Riya tells all the things to her mother she replies
“Women have to learn adjust”
This
show that women have to sacrifice under man made patriarchal society.
Riya’s
last letter for Madhav is very heart touching and fascinating one as I told
earlier that sacrifice is the main important thing in love and Riya also does
the same she leaves Madhav and goes at unknown place.
Chetan
Bhagat comes out as the path shower to Madhav
saying that she is alive and must be somewhere in singing bar as she has
a dream to be a singer in small a bar. So the Act 3 is in New York
where Madhav tries his best to get his love and he also gets it in a dieseling
way like many Bollywood movie “Chalte Chlate” of Shahrukh
Khan, “ Jane tu ya jane naa” of Imaran khan. In one sense it is
filmy end of the story of Half Girlfriend. I memoriesd one diloge from the
movie “Om Shanti Om” by Farah
khan that
“ Agar kisi cheez ko Dil se chaho to puri kainath usse tumse
milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai”
So
I conclude my book review of the Novel of Half Grilfrind by Chetan Bhagat with some points that beginning and the
ending of this novel has the similar
like many Bollywood movies but its
curtain out the real picture of India’s like poverty, rich people way of
thinking in the direction of poor, politics, corruption, education as the last position
of Bihar in education fields, woman
sacrifices and so many issues that are interrelated
with contemporary problems of India and youngster about love as everyone has desire to get it
successful but I would like to wind up my review with last line of the novel
“Don’t quit. It will be happens one day”
Thank you …
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