Whenever there is a mention of Chetan Bhagat, every Indian reader’s ears are likely to pick up for a second. Like his previous novels, in Revolution 2020, he takes up an issue that is concerned with youth of India. This time he has probed into the lives of students preparing for IIT and AIEEE entrances.
Set in the heart of Varanasi, this book does manage to get the readers hooked from the beginning but gets highly dramatic towards the end. The pace of the novel is fast with twists and turns coming every now and then. Such is the Chetan Bhagat style of writing that he makes sure every Indian is able to relate to his characters somewhere or the other.
The protagonist, Gopal, is a person from lower middle class family, has a girlfriend, Aarti, from a much higher status and a close friend, Raghav, who is much better looking and more intelligent than him. The plot unfolds when all the three are preparing for their engineering entrance exams and proceeds forward explicitly giving an account of their emotions and thinking. As always, Chetan Bhagat has chosen an underdog as his lead character. Probably he does it so that the majority readers could relate themselves to him. But this time around he portrays the central character in a grey light. Gopal is shown as ambitious, impulsive, immature and corrupt, which can make some readers averse towards him. Many hot issues concerning India are taken up, such as corruption, scams, political pressures, etc.
The starting of the novel is good, where he writes about the love life of Gopal, problems associated with it, and the troubles of a student life. But when he tries to strike the patriotic chord of the reader by mentioning the situation of India, he falls back. And in the end he screws up when he adds the melodramatic twist for no particular reason. Chetan Bhagat has given all the right ingredients for making a saucy Indian movie. Hopefully we’ll be watching this book turned into a Yash Raj movie sometime in the near future.
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