Sunday, February 5, 2012

Quick Review : Accidentally in Love... With Him? Again?? by Nikita Singh



“ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE... WITH HIM? AGAIN??” is BOLD but NOT BEAUTIFUL

“ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE... WITH HIM? AGAIN??” is the second novel by “best selling” author Nikita Singh.  It’s the story of Chhavi Mukharjee, a struggling print model in Mumbai, who “accidentally” falls in love with Tushar Mehra, a photographer. “Accidentally” because, they had decided to be sex partners only (Friends with Benefits types... or No Strings Attached Types). So, the sex partners very predictably fall in love, and then the problem starts – Expectations, Long distance Relationships, Breakups etc.

As this is Nikita Singh’s second novel, so I am allowed to be a little strict. Firstly, I must applaud Nikita for choosing a bold subject, and scripting it very boldly. But here lies the problem. The story, which starts with a reference to sex, drags slowly, with almost each chapter mentioning about sex and love making. At one stage, the reader tends to feel, bored, and irritated also. It’s not wrong to write love making scenes in the books, in fact, they bring more reality to love stories. However emphasising only on sex makes a story very weak and boring. Too much of everything is bad, and this is one major drawback of this book. Too much of sex! This is the main reason, the story becomes weak, and you don’t feel sad when the characters are sad or happy when they are happy.

Another problem – Young Indian writers are too much (or blindly) following Chetan Bhagat’s style of writing. They don’t understand that, excessive usage of slangs, like ‘F#ck’ etc., makes literature very weak. Or, maybe, they are not writing literature at all. There were times, when people used to read novels, not only for a good story, but also to improve their language skills. But, unfortunately, most of the books written by modern authors do not help in any way. Such kind of literature is called “Fast Food Literature”, and it is also affecting the readership quality.

On the whole, Nikita Singh’s “Accidentally in Love... with him? Again?” is BOLD but NOT BEAUTIFUL. It may go well with the readers, who actually love the “F#ck” lingo and repeated sex scenes”, but the readers of authentic literature will feel a letdown. Just because of a bold attempt, I give 2 stars out of 5, for Nikita Singh’s “Accidentally in Love... with him? Again?”

Verdict: You won’t be disappointed, if this book is not there in your library.

8 comments:

  1. I like your outspoken review author-to-be, or should I say out-written, to coin a new word as such ? :)) All the same, I am sure the young author will take this review in her stride .... after all, it is negativity which gives us the strength of mind to improve on our skill/s.

    By the way,you ought to read her blog. It makes for interesting reading :))

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  2. She is using her face to sell her books. Otherwise this book had nothing. just bloody sex sex and sex.

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  3. chill abhi, at least she has a book,or two, now a third,soon to be a fourth ....what about you or I ? Just a few celebs who comment on one's blogs, and to the other, who tends to meet a few of em now n then :))

    Rohit,could you send me a teaser sample copy ? ;)

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  5. Is the pdf version of this book available??? Please send/ post the link.

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  7. I have read what u have written Rohit and i agree with you. just to read that u have an understanding of what these people are writing ..i mean a kind of unrealistic picturing of the glamorous city life stuffed with sex and relationship 'fundas' with a chutney language and stuff like that ...this isn't literature....though i havent read Nikita ...but i do have read some similar novels.For you sir...i say go ahead and write your work...my best wishes...

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