Was really a revolution?

Just completed Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020. “At last completed!” These were the words popped out of my mind when I put the book rather a movie script down after picking up that from nearby Crossword 4 months back.

The story in Varanasi, roamed around three friends among which Gopal’s character was center of the stage who falls in love with Aarti in early teen age. Aarti being not ready for Gopal’s love, for that reason, not ready for LOVE, I would say, refuses to his proposal. Raghav who is Gopal’s childhood friend, has a promising career ahead being the IIT-JEE scorer and brightest in the town. Gopal being the failure one time in IIT-JEE, goes to Kota, Rajasthan (holy Kashi of wisdom for IIT-JEE aspirants) keeping his father’s last savings, borrowed loans at the stake, ends nowhere but at his father’s death ceremony on returning back to Varanasi. During this journey back to Varanasi, Gopal had already lost his only love of life in agony to Raghav as Aarti falls in love with Raghav when Gopal was in Kota.

Book’s second half roams around Gopal’s struggle to stand up again to build an Engineering college in the outskirts of Varanasi with the help of a local MLA Shuklaji. Raghav, passionate about his career in journalism, leaves an opportunity with Infosys to join a local newspaper. Gopal gets busy in stuffing corrupt pockets of some bureaucrats for betterment of his college and future. Gopal’s agony plays some canny tricks with the help of Shuklaji to root out Raghav from his job when Raghav gets the MLA on road showing his deep feet in mud of corruption. In between, Gopal succeeds to win Aarti’s love and Aarti too decides to differ her way from Raghav’s, after one or two more than friendly cozy moves with Gopal.

Till the time, it goes well for the protagonist. The book takes a ‘U’ turn after flipping 3/4th of its pages. Gopal changes his cards and blows away his love for Aarti after meeting a small, poor child outside Raghav’s office and realizing that Raghav’s endeavors have much stronger promises for the betterment of society and human welfare. Raghav gets his naukri and chokri back and stands in electoral poll as a candidate for local MLA seat. The movie, oops, book ends with Chetan Bhagat’s praise for Gopal – ‘You are a good man’. This impressive turn in last few pages was obvious as usual and seen as a spade ace in Chetan’s books. These last few pages succeed in winning back the reader’s mind and attention, which indeed is a good thing because readers should come back to read his next release, right?

I still scratch my brain, why did chetan name his book 'R2020'? Let me know if you find the answer. Anyways, once felt delighted reading Chetan’s first 3 books, got thwarted reading last two, Revolution 2020 being the latest. Will give 2.5 out of 5.

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