Q&A…
September 17, 06 by BharaniI acquired this last week, largeley due to my impulse. I had no idea about the existence of this stuff before. The 4 line summary at the beginning was all that I needed…
Q&A,is a novel by Vikas Swarup. This novel is about an eighteen-year old orphan, nomadic boy (Ram Mohammad Thomas) who wins the highest sum ever in the history of Television Quiz shows. 100 crores! Thomas thinks that it is a pure luck that he could win this show. The producers think otherwise and they are hell-bent in proving Thomas a Cheat! The plot revolves around his life told as as a series of narrations. The way the story is creatively narrated will definitely surprise you…It is a definite page-turner.
Film four, a UK-based film producers have secured the rights to transform this novel in to film. Vikas Swarup has recommended Sharukh-khan for the protagonist’s role!
The novel has sarcasm, tragedy, suspense, poverty, happiness and all possible elements. Though I have to warn about the elements of grown-up stuff(I am not quoting any words to avoid my blog turning up for such words in Google search :)) that are intertwined into the story…I also had this occasional feeling that Vikas swarup has picked up ideas from various indian movies and novels and created this mash-up…Nevertheless, this can definitely keep you occupied during those few hours of travel…
a Says: 18.09.06 at 10:05 am
ohh crap…the movie is doomed..!! i can so totally imagine the following dialogue…rendered by none other than SRK…
“iss duniya mein mere se bada cheat bhi hai…jaante ho woh kaun hai…bhagwaan..jisne mujhe iss show pe jitaya”
sob sob sob
taaliyaan..!!
Anuj Says: 18.09.06 at 10:46 am
Just heard yday how blogging is turning out to be a big thing for advertising.. And they example they quoted was that publishers send free books to the bloggers so that they review them and ppl can know about the book
Soon you would be flooded with books if your blog keeps getting more and more famous
and you keep writing the way u do..
educatedunemployed Says: 18.09.06 at 6:53 pm
Did you enjoy reading the book?
Bharani Says: 19.09.06 at 2:19 pm
Ankur…You are putting SRK to shame…nice dialogue
Interesting Anuj…It will indeed be nice if I get free copies of book…;)
EU…??? You really want me to answer that question?
Ramki Says: 19.09.06 at 5:12 pm
Big B, what the hell is wrong with your RSS feed? Is there a problem or have you disabled it?
educatedunemployed Says: 19.09.06 at 7:10 pm
You have said so much about the book, however I am not clear as to what your actual thoughts about the book were.May be I have an interpretation handicap here.
Bharani Says: 20.09.06 at 2:52 pm
Ramki, I am not sure…I have subscribed it with Bloglines and it is working fine…Will check it up
EU…I did enjoy the book. I mentioned about the drawbacks that I found in the end…
Ramki Says: 20.09.06 at 5:36 pm
Big B, Open this site in Firefox/IE 7. If you don’t see the RSS feed sign in the address bar, then there is a problem.
I am not able to get the feed with Feedreader and Netvibes.
Bharani Says: 21.09.06 at 4:13 am
Will checkup Ramki. My laptop has crashed. Waiting for the weekend to fix it. Will fix it up then…
Jeeva Says: 21.09.06 at 1:04 pm
Is your acer laptop still working da? mine crashed last weekend and could restore it to its old glory..