The famous movie made on this book
was “Kai Po Che”. Chetan Bhagat is famous for his style of writing and is loved
by young readers for the wittiness of his content. This book is no exception.
He has wonderfully narrated a story of a young guy who tries to commit suicide,
and just before he does so, he sends a mail to Bhagat for no apparent reason.
Bhagat finds him out like one finds a needle out of a hay stock and talks to
him about what had made him take that extreme step. The book is about three
friends, Ishaan, Govind and Omi. Govind is the one who’s narrated the whole
story and Omi was dead by the time this happened.
These three
friends, in their 20’s are very close. Govind dreams of owing a business and
opens a cricket shop to make sure that his friends’ interests are taken care
of. They were doing good, saved money to open a shop in an upmarket mall. They
pay the deposit and rent, spent every saved penny and took loans. Their dreams
shattered to pieces when on 26th Jan 2000 Earthquake stuck Ahmedabad
and their dream shop came down to ashes even befo0re it was built. This was the first mistake of Govind’s
life.
Later,
they gather courage and unite once again to work harder to make their dreams
come true again. Ishaan started taking up cricket coaching (he being one of the
finest batsman of his school time) and his favorite was Ali, a Muslim student
who was blesses by the gift of hitting 6’s. In the meanwhile Govind falls in
love with Ishaan’s sister whom he was tutoring and who was barely even 18 years
of age. He gets involved with her
physically. This was the second mistake
of Govind’s life.
A year later
Ahmedabad was again ruined by the communal riots after a train coach consisting
of karsevaks was set afire. This coach carried Omi’s uncle’s 14 year old son
who died. It was concluded that the Muslim community had done this at the
Godhra station. Omi’s uncle was a politician and under the influence of alcohol
and marijuana wanted to kill Ali. The three friends unite to fight him and
other 50 members of his violent mob. Omi loses his life saving Ali, yet, His
uncle was adamant on killing Ali, Ishaan had been cornered and the only hope
was Govind, who became selfish for a fraction of second, but managed to save
Ali’s life. Though, the Trishul which attacked Ali had ruined his wrist and this was the third mistake of Govind’s
life.
Ishaan
comes to know of Govind’s affair with his sister and he breaks all ties with
him. 5 years down the line they have saved enough money to get Ali operated (as
his parents died during riots and Ishaan was bringing him up) but Ishaan
refuses to touch Govind’s money. This is when Govind decided to end his life.
But Bhagat reaches there and he is saved. He re-unites the tie of friendship
between Govind & Ishaan. Ali gets successfully operated and after all this
the book was released.
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