Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Revolution 2020-Love,Corruption,Ambition


Being in love with reading for the past ten years,and a great fan of Chetan Bhagat for 4 years actually provoked me to get Revolution 2020 on the day 1 of its release.Thanks to flipkart.com for its fast and easy access.Its the first book I bought in my own money, feels so special to hold it in my hands.
                   
So the book, It revolves around 3 childhood friends,Gopal,Raghav and Aarthi.Obviously a triangular love story.The quote,"Love is a great feeling,only when it is returned" makes a lot of sense.Gopal is pictured as a ambitious guy,who has suffered a lot by the current education system,family background and relative's selfishness.Raghav is a guy  who is very determinat,values values and follows his passion.Aarthi is the confused girl,confused between friendship and love and proves the point- when it comes to relationships,if a girl is confused it means the house is on fire!

Love Chetan's way of understanding a girl,about exactly pointing out girl's thoughts.How exclamatory marks are predominant in their texts,their pauses between the chats,and lot of other stuffs like wat a girl thinks wen a guy says something.Like his previous book,the girl  drives the story.
How people get into situations that they give into the corrupt system is very smartly pictured.The current educational system's loop holes,the political system's ineffeciency and corrupt nature is depicted wonderfully.

Even if you murder some 100 people and if you are an Indian politician the maximum punishment you recieve is to be held up in an AC room,with TV,food from any top 5 star hotel and a Police Constable to serve you.Chetan never mentions this as a blackmark of the society,he just brings light on to "this is what is happening here",left for us to decide.

The climax of the book,the coscience of gopal in the form a poor small  boy ant the change in the script is well-plotted and for sure needs appreciation.Understanding people,description of characters and unexpected humour at unexpected times and depiction of the miserable  Life at Varanasi -"the place which removes everyone's sins"are the plusses.

He has also pointed out how education has become a business today.People literally sell education in a discount.Stunningly pointed out.The truth is supposed to reach the people via media..Newspaper taking the major share,what happens if it is corrupted.?This is amazingly pictured .A lot of Chetan's humour sense is missing.But Revolution 2020 is definiterly not an usual rom-com,it surely is a seed for Revolution.I dont know if we are going to make it by 2020 but it definitely lies in the hands of each one of us !

With Anna Hazare's intense Ahimsa way of fighting against corruption around,Chetan has proved again "Pen is mightier than sword".Everyone has got to do his bit toward the country's well being.Chetan has!, Now its upto the readers Are We Going to?A change cannot happen overnight,but every thousand million journey starts with a first step and Chetan has asked each one of us to take our first step.

Besides...
              I have to do my Bit.!

2 comments: