Anything For You, Ma'am
(Tushar Raheja)
Tushar Raheja's debut novel- Anything for you, ma'am takes the reader through the love story of Tejas, a B.Tech student from IIT Delhi. The premises are fairlystraightforward and can be compared to any standard popcorn romance flick - boy and girl falling in love against the consent of the girl's parent - the difference being that the two live thousands of miles across and the story narrates the boy's roundabout journeyfrom Delhi to Chennai to meet his lady love. The story is narrated in mostly a haphazard manor with anecdotes from IIT Delhi class and hostel life and flashback scenes depicting Tejas and Shreya's romance buildup dispersed almost throughout the story.
Also added, as a linked storyline, is a professor's obsession for a bus running on alternate fuel (with a pretty catchy name of biobull), apparently in an attempt to provide a bit of more colour to the story.Itwould be impossible not to get into comparisons with another successful novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat though the latter is a much better piece of work by a long way. Tushar's maiden venture seems mostly an amateurish attempt to capitalize more on the success of Chetan Bhagat's work which again was set against an IIT Delhi backdrop.
Of courseTushar's novel has its moments as well - the meticulous planning of the journey is pretty enjoyable and so is the spraying of soda on the professors. But the other hostel/college anecdotes - aimed more at providing funny moments to the narration are ok at best and the number of coincidences happening can easily beat any Hindi movie of the 70s. The narrative tends to change gears pretty quickly and without much of a warning. The climax and the link of the bio-bullare hardly surprising.The novelwould not givethe readera headache but at times the reader would surely wish that it ends.Overall the novel is less than impressive and can be given a miss unless the reader is waiting for a train delayed byfour hours (as it happens in the novel itself) on a deserted station and has nothing better to do.
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