I have just read Five Point Someone…I
cannot call it a GOOD book but it surely does well as a GOOD timepass! The
story seems to be a saga of the underdogs, which is absolutely fine, actually
great! Writing about people who generally go unnoticed or get noticed for all
the wrong reasons in school or college, will always be game!
Ryan, Alok and Hari, the three bumchums at
IIT, equally distant from each other in character, do the wrong things and more
wrongs in order to get the things already done wrong, right! One after another,
they land themselves in trouble, calling for more trouble in latter part of the
course, to the extent that at one point, they rue about having done what they
did. Well, you can’t blame them…they wanted to live a life they would love to…but
they would not be given the choice to. Yet, loads of support from a young
professor, some grit from themselves and a bagful of luck help the guys manage decent
seats in the professional arena.
think that you can get away doing all this in IIT or for that matter, any
decent college…it can, in fact, lead you to undesired and unsavory situations,
dragging in legal and disciplinary hands to make things worse. And luck would
surely be the last one to be by your side, let alone the one super-generous
professor in college. You get into all this swamp; you know you have lost it.
Coz these colleges are still miles away from implementing changes that you
desire and long for…you have to slog it out, take that!
Now… for the book itself…Well, Chetan
Bhagat seems to be a good light blog writer, (no offence please)! Once you are
through the 27 chapters it feels more of a delicious tang for the teenager than
that of an adult. I mean, it is difficult to imagine enjoying a ‘Munnabhai
MBBS’ after a delightful watch of a Ray film, or relishing a mere nice blog
after savoring Pamuk’s ‘My Name is Red’ (which I have been reading of late)…
but, friends, trust me, it is true that it can work wonders! You don’t have to
rack your brains, think deep or concentrate hard to suck in the juice.
normally indulge in…a whiff of fresh air, you might say, allowing a break,
temporary though, from deeper issues that otherwise fill our lives so much! Despite
everything, once you are through, you know you have enjoyed a completely
entertaining stretch of 24 hours (or two days for some, at the most to finish
the book). Nice read!
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