Maybe Bhagat wrote it keeping future movie adaptations in mind (why write the novel at all then? Why not just the screenplay?) The biggest flaw in the book is the characters. Unfortunately, the only remotely good thing I can say about Half Girlfriend is that it feels more like a collection of scenes than a novel. I liked 2 States though.maybe it’s my fondness for masala movies (not the Akki and Sallu ones), but the story did ring a bit true. The trouble with Bhagat’s novels usually lies in the story, in that most of times there is no story to speak of. Both his language and grammar are quite good, which is more than can be said for Durjoy Datta, Tushar Raheja, and the current crop of campus/job/romance/Indian authors. I am not a big fan of the much maligned Chetan Bhagat as such, but I don’t understand all the brouhaha over his ‘simple’ English either.
Ok, this is one book I was really apprehensive about, given the amount of bad reviews it generated even before it was launched.
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