No no I am not talking about my life but about the novel written by Chetan Bhagat. The novel is set in the year 2000 and revolves around three friends living in ouskirts of Amdavad(I know spelling of Ahmedabad but that’s the way u pronounce it). The chief protagonist of the novel is a young boy called ‘Govind Patel’. As the name suggest he is gujju and dreams of starting a business. He ia very good mathematician and had been the only one their locality to score 100 percent in 12. He thinks that being Gujrati, doing business runs in his genes. But he needs to accommodate two of his friends as well. So comes the Cricket Shop “Team India Cricket” with his friends as his business partners. His friends Ishan and Omi. Ishaan is a cricket fanatic, a patriot and best cricketer in locality while Omi is dumb kind of person, with not many dreams to chase. To support their income Govind starts taking maths tuitions and ishaan starts cricket coaching. With the business setting up we have three important people who are the central to the three mistakes made by Govind. They are: a cricket prodigy and a muslim boy “Ali”, math phobic “Vidya”, who is teen sister of Ishan & student of govind and Omi’s right wing hindu fundamentalist mama (maternal uncle) Bitto Mama. These three characters with a heady mix of cricket, politics, religion and love results in an enticing story.
Read it for a good fun and breeze story line. And if you loved Five Point someone then you surely should vouch for it.
