![]() Yes, she is the ideal girl but then every guy dreams of such a girl. ![]() This is school-time romance, so I guess she fits the bill. She belongs to a dominant, conservative family. Isn’t Seema, the girl Rahul fantasies, too perfect to be true? I'll share Prahlad Kakkar’s view on mushy romantic novels- you can say that it is mushy romantic but then who has not experienced it? Even a 70-year- old can fall in love! Love sells and so a little bit of Bollywood flavour works too. Does the plot itself become obsessed with love? Even Chetan Bhagat is cashing in on publicity. See, at the end of the day the reader should be willing to risk his money on you. People still read Arundhati Roy but the market has expanded to accommodate us too. If you can buy a book for Rs.100, you pick that up as long as you can relate to it. It is the Chetan Bhagat syndrome, I guess. My agenda is simple- read it and respect it even if you do not like it. If my readers can relate to the story, I am fine with it. ![]() See, you can either love him or hate him- these authors are consciously different. My novel is not targeted at Ghosh’s reader base. ![]() Indian readers love getting soaked in love.īut Indian readers love to read Amitava Ghosh too… These are meant for people who enjoy love stories. They are not too serious but not very light reads too- TMD is 303 pages of a love story- you cannot skim through that many pages. Mainstream romances are emotionally charged. Faraaz Kazi at the launch of Truly, Madly, Deeply ![]()
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