Reading
Love Stories back to back can surely frustrate me to the zenith. But
when the stories are from two different kind of writers, the reader
within me gives the widest smile possible. I have just completed KOMAL
MEHTA's "Nick of Time". The 240 pages book is published by one of the
greatest publication- PENGUIN BOOKS. I haven't read much books by
Penguin hence I was pretty excited to read this one. The book also has
the tagline "Right One Wrong Time". Komal
Mehta has always suffered from an overactive imagination and thinks she
is good at making up stories. She has been working in the movie
marketing field for the past 3 years and has worked for Reliance Big
Entertainment and Havas Worldwide(EURO RSCG / MPG India) in the past.
Currently she works with Pradeep Guha’s film marketing agency Culture
Brandz in Mumbai. Nick of Time is her first novel. And let me tell you
my personal view- She looks charming and beautiful. I have checked her
image on the back cover almost at every turn of page. :-) My apology for
this confession, Komal mam. But this is what your book is all about-
Making confessions, right? :-)
NICK OF TIME is a story about three characters- Alehya, Vicky
and Shagun. Alehya returns to Chandigarh after knowing about her
childhood's best friend, Shagun's marriage. She is excited to meet the
person with whom her friend is marrying. She is also excited to meet and
have lots of conversation with her as it had been 7 years since they
met last time. But when she comes to know it's Vicky who she is getting
married to, she gets disappointed. She always hated the guy, right from
her childhood. She always found him weird and irritating. And she
discloses this to Shagun, she doesn't get surprised. She had already
planned about making both of them accept each other as Friends. But.... 3
weeks to marriage and Alehya-Vicky spending all the time with each
other on Shagun's insistence creates some magical transformation in the
plot of the story. As the wedding draws near, the three grapple with
issues of love, confusion and guilt to discover what their hearts truly
desire. They have to make life-altering decisions in the NICK OF TIME!
Komal Mehta is surely a writer whom I would love to read in
future too. She has magical writing skills. She makes you get into the
journey of the story. For a moment, I myself started thinking as if the
whole plot is being played with me and I got tensed at many places. :-)
She has great sense of humour which keeps the interest in the book
alive. Even when the book turns monotonous in between, her unique
description of things made me read the part interestingly too. One
writer whom I found similar to Komal Mehta is- Varsha Dixit in her debut
novel-"Right Fit Wrong Shoe". Though that book didn't satisfy me much,
this has surely entertained me throughout.
The initial pages when Alehya and Vicky doesn't pacify with
each other gives a curiosity to know what happened further in the story.
Because synopsis of the book makes it clear that both of them falls for
each other later. And when the whole series of the awaited moments
begin, the book goes to a very different level. It takes you to a
totally different world of
love-getting-over-all-the-fears-and-confusions. It becomes entertaining
to read about the marriage preparation of Vicky-Shagun at one end while
the development of romance between Vicky-Alehya at another end. The love
scenarios that authoress has inserted in the book are original. I have
always believed that reading too many similar stories isn't an
irritation if all of them are being treated in different ways. And I am
quite blithe to say that Komal Mehta has given a totally new face to the
story that is so common in our Bollywood movies and TV serials. She has
treated it in her own way that makes you excited to turn the pages.
The dilemma that each character gets into the book after the
conversation of Alekhya and Shagun with mehendi in their hands is the
real moment when I fell in love with the book. Every thing that is
written after that scene touched my heart directly. It says so much
about the different traits of human beings. It makes hard for us to
characterize any of the three characters as wrong, traitor or exploited.
Every one of them seems to be right according to the scenario that took
place with their life. But still knowing the fact that one of them will
have to sacrifice gives goosebumps to you almost at every thought of
them that is mentioned in the pre-climax and climax pages. The book
tells about how one hears to his/her heart and goes in whatever
direction life then takes to. How one confesses what one has gone
through and brings a transformation towards happiness in life. How one
does not get selfish even when one knows that he'll have to sacrifice
for a friend or a love-partner. There are many such elements that I
noticed while reading the book, but I won't talk of all otherwise you'll
lose all the excitement of picking up the book from the bookstore near
you. :-)
Coming to the drawbacks, first I would like to criticize the
COVER PAGE of the book with all my heart. It is seriously very dull.
Even the face of the girls doesn't match with the description of Alehya
and Shagun in the book. The cover page's design is so yellowish that you
might consider the book as a decade old. I am disappointed. I hope with
next print, the cover page is changed to something bright and lovely.
Then, as Chandigarh is mentioned so many times by the authoress while
describing the plot of the story in synopsis and sneak peeks, she should
have mentioned some places from Chandigarh in the book. The city
doesn't get the treatment in the story that it gets in synopsis. And as
the book is about marriage, many traditions should have been mentioned
in an exciting manner but authoress has again ignored doing any of this.
Else, every thing related to the story is COOL. I would rate the book
3.75/5. I recommend it to all who are wanting to read a different tale
of love, confusion and destiny. GO FOR IT.
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