Summary:
2 States - The Story of My Marriage follows the lives of two lovers who are studying in IIMs - the premier institute of management training and their quest of taking their relationship forward to a conclusion, marriage. The boy Krish hails from a Punjabi family and the girl from the family of Tamil Brahmins, the two get first-hand experiences of the intricacies linked with the much hyped Indian-marriages. The two protagonists en route to their marriage come across various forms of ups and downs which tests the very foundation of their relationship. The story revolves around their struggle to prove that love supersedes all other considerations for a marriage to be.
Their confrontations with their family are much elaborated and so is the inner state of affairs of their mind. The story depicts how a love story in India cannot be separated from the families of the conforming individuals. Depiction of the love story's evolution into marriage and the narrow path of keeping everyone happy is the USP the book holds.
Review:
Here we go again, another book from the bestselling fiction writer Chetan Bhagat. To those who have read and enjoyed his earlier works, this book may succeed to arouse you for a while but you can't save this one from being termed as a dipper. It seems 2 states - the story of my marriage was drafted with a Bollywood pot-boiler in mind; with no sense of direction it follows a cyclic path not heading anywhere. In most of the situations, you can arrive at the conclusion without any effort as such; it fails to deliver the substance, and is not a book that keeps you hanging on to it. You can easily get lost into your own mundane thought-processes while reading, for the book isn't that enchanting at all.
The book starts with the promise of an unlikely couple, a Punjabi boy and a Tamil girl, getting into a relationship in an IIM. The plot moves ahead with quirky tales of a relationship between two budding entrepreneurs to a mature commitment of marriage between two consenting adults. The cliches in 2 states - the story of my marriage are as old as time in itself, they develop self-destructive tendencies as the book marches ahead to its conclusion. The north Indian family meets south Indian family angle brings nothing more than what the reader's imagination can do on its own.
Chetan Bhagat and his 2 states - the story of my Marriage both seemed to have missed an introspective editing that precedes any book's release. The book seems to capitalize on the marketing potential; a Chetan Bhagat's book release is after the success of Five point someone. 2 states - the story of my Marriage can certainly turn out to be a curtain call on his writing journey, and he may be well on his way to become a full-blown Bollywood writer.
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