BOOK REVIEW - “World's Best Boyfriend” BY Durjoy
Datta
It is
a very interesting story that is spread across the world of two adult
teens, Dhruv and Aranya who hate each other. Something that happened back in
school has drifted them away from each other and given birth to a hate so
intense that one’s misery makes the other person smile.
A fine lad ‘Dhruv’,
a scared girl ‘Aranya’, domestic issues, their lives entwined with bonds of
love and hate but what will stretch them far or what is it that will bring them
back together. Fate brings them together in college again. However, being
grownups does not change anything. They still want to hurt each other badly.
This leads to a war between them where both of them keep looking for chances to
go after each other’s throat, still this story manages to take the readers into
a journey filled with laughter, heartbreaks, love and other stuff almost every
person must have gone through in their college times.
The entire
sanctity of the troubled domestic issues and personal rifts being lost in the
haze of volley of expletives and random nitpicking on each other. There's no
agenda at hand when it comes to the girl's disease so much so that it is
wrapped up even before it folds. The characters playing hide and seek which
again looks abrupt and hollow and the shallow machismo of Dhruv relying on
muscles and porn and masturbation and alcohol is a huge turn off.
Are the bonds
sacred or are they scattered and tattered pieces of nothingness? It's a fight
for survival in a cruel world, who will live up to the expectations? The robust
angry Dhruv or the shy and pompous Aranya? That's what the story is all about.
Yet, there is
something that tells them: This is not it.
Now my Positive viewpoints:
The positives of the story that
demanded a lot from the reader can be the mental and physical stand -off
between Dhruv & Aranya. A godly friend and enemy in Sanchit, a story bathed
in the college hues and horizon and the struggle to get your priorities right
in live be it love, life or career. Only few of these things catch the
attention.
Some suggestive points:
Overall the book is not impressive as the past ones, may be the climax
of World’s Best Boyfriend could have been altered. Or maybe, the story should
not have proceeded as it did because there is a lot more than that there's no
concrete line of decency and expletives drive the book.
Final words:
Overall
if asked I would say... the book hell bent on recreating the
yesteryear magic of college and romance is an entirely pauper attempt. The only
riches you grab out from the book are scanty and rest relies heavily on crude
and intolerable maniacal story line. A lot more than that there's no concrete
line of decency and expletives drive the book. A failed attempt at humor and a
bigger failure at letting romance be sensual or starry eyed. “An old wine in a new
bottle with a wrong combo” .“World's Best Boyfriend” BY Durjoy Datta … I
would give 2 stars to this book.
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