Book Review
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Revolution Twenty20
Who is Chetan Bhagat?
Chetan Bhagat is the author of blockbuster novels – Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes Of My Life (2008) , 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011), Half Girlfriend (2014), One Indian Girl (2016) The Girl In Room 105 (2018), One Arranged Murder (2020). All nine books have remained bestsellers since their release. He now brings you his latest novel, 400 Days, a thriller that will keep you hooked until the end.
Synopsis:
Once upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys.
One wanted to use his intelligence to make money.
One wanted to use his intelligence to create a revolution.
The problem was, they both loved the same girl.
Welcome to Revolution 2020. A story about childhood friends Gopal, Raghav and Aarti who struggle to find success and love in Varanasi. However, it isn’t easy to achieve this in an unfair society that rewards the corrupt. As Gopal gives in to the system, and Raghav fights it, who will win?
From the bestselling author of Five Point Someone, one night @ the call center, The Three Mistakes of My Life and 2 States, comes another gripping tale from the heartland of India. Are you ready for the revolution?
Here are some question answer from author :
What is ‘Revolution 2020’ about?
Revolution 2020 is about Gopal, Raghav and Aarti, who struggle to find love and success in Varanasi.
The tagline says ‘Love. Corruption. Ambition.’ What is going on?
The tagline refers to the key themes of the book. Revolution 2020 is foremost a love story, in fact a love triangle, as both Gopal and Raghav love the same girl. Corruption, particularly in the education sector, is the backdrop of the story. All three characters have strong ambitions, and how they go about achieving them also forms a big part of the story.
What made you write this book, after your last book “2 States: The Story of my marriage”?
2 States was a fun story inspired from my own life. I wanted to take a lighter look at intercultural marriages. I had fun doing it, and people had fun reading it, as it became my highest selling book.
Revolution 2020 comes from my travels across India in the past two years. As a motivational speaker, I have visited more than 50 cities in the heartland of India. The youth in these smaller cities, their dreams and aspirations inspired me to do a story on them.
I also saw disturbing levels of corruption in the education sector, which can have profound effects on the quality of education we are giving to our new generation, and wanted to bring that to people’s attention.
Why Varanasi?
I wanted to pick a city from the Indian heartland, especially a place with a lot of character.
Something about Varanasi connected with me, every time I went there. I felt compelled to write about it. After all, Varanasi is a place where people go to cleanse their sins. Has anyone ever thought about the people who live there, and deal with all the sins people have left behind?
What is the message?
There are several messages in Revolution 2020, and I want the reader to get them upon reading the book, rather than me spelling it out. However, I want to emphasize that when even the education system becomes corrupt, it can have far reaching negative consequences on society. I hope Revolution 2020 provokes some thought in that direction.
This story is having three main character and that’s, Aarti, Gopal and Raghav. Whole novel revolves around these characters. Many other characters are there as minor characters. The story is based on the theme of love, corruption, ambition. Also it took stand of youth of India.
It starts like Gopal and Raghav are friends in school time. Later on, Aarti and Gopal became friends. Then these two boys find themselves to clear such exams and in between they stood against to each other like Gopal got into corrupted system and Raghav who stood against it and fighting to it. The love element is like Aarti give preference to Raghav first and then as Gopal got success she turned herself to Gopal. So, the character of Aarti is swinging between both the male character.
The story is told by Gopal Mishra’s perspective. And how he fought to life to reach at the top and get success in life.
Here in this novel, we can find very well the life of the aspirants from various angles. As well as the corruption happenings, the misbalancing of social statuses, portrayal of youth, the meaning of life’s philosophy.
The narrative technique of Chetan Bhagat is so impressive I could find in the novel that he has used the prologue and epilogue and he made this novel worthy by one observation that is, By prologue is started to plotting the story and he became the character in that, he put one question that is by Gopal to Chetan Bhagat himself, “Do you think I am a good person, Chetan-ji?”
Then he put an answer by himself in epilogue that as very last dialogue, ‘You are a good person,’ I said.
Chetan Bhagat's writing style is very different from other authors. He is known for making books readable for the average Indian. He has constantly been an inspiration to aspiring writers.
He believes in keeping it simple which helps him engage with the audience, who don't really want to refer to a dictionary while reading books. The audience also find it easier to relate to his books as the context of his books are usually based on actual events from their lives.
Bhagat also invests a lot of time in creating the characters of his books so that his target audience can relate to them in a better way. His stories usually have an Indian touch in them which make them even more interesting. With his vivid and humorous way of depicting stories, he has inspired reading habits in many young Indians.
How varanasi is described :
Specialist one-stop shops provide you everything from firewood to priests and urns to ensure that the dead person departs with dignity. Touts on Manikarnika Ghat lure foreigners to come watch the funeral pyres and take pictures for a fee, thereby creating an additional source of revenue. Varanasi is probably the only city on earth where Death is a tourist attraction.
Kota:
We climbed up three floors. I panted due to the exertion. The extreme neat did not help, 'Kota is hot, get used to the weather,'
This video is all about the chapter from the original novel Revolution Twenty20. The speaker is reading the chapter which is significant that the title is Revolution Twenty20, the chapter has the remarks at various concerns.
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Works Cited :
A, Gayathridevi, and . Deivasigamani T. “Social Imbalance in Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020 and One Night @ the Call Center.” Language in India. Language in India, http://www.languageinindia.com/march2018/auseminar1/gayathrisocialimbalancechetanbhagat1.pdf. Accessed 21 1 2023.
Ali, Chand. “MODERN NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS OF LOVE IN CHETAN BHAGAT'S “REVOLUTION 2020.”” Research Scholar ISSN 2320 – 6101 An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015. Research Scholar, http://researchscholar.co.in/downloads/3--md.-chand-ali.pdf. Accessed 21 1 2023.Research Scholar
Ali, Chand. “Rampant Corruption in Indian Education, Politics and Love in Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020.” Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, 2015, https://www.galaxyimrj.com/V4/n2/Ali.pdf. Accessed 21 1 2023.
Jhanji, Rajinder Singh. INDIAN WOMAN-THE ICON OF NEW INDIA IN THE NOVELS OF CHETAN BHAGAT. IJRAR- International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, vol. 5, no. 4, 2018.
Sharma, Geeta. “A comparative evaluation of Election succeeding tactics in Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games and Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020.” International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, vol. 6, no. 5, 2021. International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, https://ijels.com/upload_document/issue_files/13IJELS-109202122-Acomparative.pdf. Accessed 21 1 2023.
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