Revolution 2020: A Banal Review
With special reference to the fifth novel of Mr. Chetan Bhagat ‘Revoltion
2020’
Well! As like some psych-moron, I
am turned to a maniac reader. I have completed Chetan Bhagat’s new creation
Revolution 2020 in four hours.
It is a wonderful narration which
flames constant curiosity in the brain of reader about the personal
relationship developed among the three childhood friends but fails to identify
the very title objective of the fiction. I did not relate my expectation to his
narration while I was buying his book. It is not only him, I am disappointed
with, rather I disown those entire set of authors who talks about a national
propaganda but then fail to cater the very basic curiosity of their readers or
for that matter ‘me’
Even I refer to the Bollywood
drama where a hero turns to national cause and becomes so much kind of
super-hero that he kills 50 goons a single punch or any fiction of Indian
author where a character makes a change as little as a rat does to its hole. Revolution
2020, for a love kind of emotions is a heart touching fiction but to relate
with the title it all did a ‘Save Ganga Awareness’. When I remind of Chetan
Bhagat, when I remind of ‘three mistakes of my life’ I increase my expectations
for his every new inventions but in totality I must comment R2020 did not
withstand my evaluation!
When I say a national cause from
a stupid common man, I do not want to talk about ‘a Nayak’ of Bollywood and yes
never about ‘a Swadesh’ of Shahrukh Khan. I want a bigger cause, very-very
bigger cause to be achieved by the hero (or heroine) with consumable
determination, planning and reality. This will possibly embark a revolution our
country is waiting since her independence...
Time has come! Literature has
been the biggest instrument of raising the mercury of thermometer of
patriotism. We just have bring out right idea, realistic implementation and
live characters to make reader believe that ‘Yes! Change can happen!”
By Jitendra Verma 26th October 2011
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