A train journey and a novel...complete
bliss and to top it up was Rahul Saini’s light and chirpy writing style which
all of us have loved since his first novel, ‘Those Small Lil Things’ came in
the market. Rahul Saini comes with a third novel, ‘The Orange Hangover’ which
is totally his type, hilarious story telling.
The book revolves around Rishabh and his
life. Friendship is the best bond that humans share and Rishabh is one such boy
for whom friendship is amongst the most important ones and this is realized by
his journalist friend Natasha. Rahul Saini is a man who loves spending time
with his family and friends and thus every novel of his portrays strong
relation with his Mom and friends. The book starts with a mail to Rishabh from
his girlfriend, Superna where she states that it’s time to break up. But this
book is not another break up - love lad’s story. It is something more than
that. While this forms a backdrop to the tale, it is filled with a crime thrill
where Rishabh gets suspected of a murder and he sets on a mission to bring
himself clear of all this. Rishabh has
been affected by dengue and his mother decides to take him back to his home
town, Jalandhar. As soon as he reaches there, the neighbourhood aunties keep
asking the same questions about getting married and losing a job which he keeps
on clarifying that h didn’t lose one, he quit. But nobody actually acknowledges
it. Rishabh is lonely and chats with his friend Natasha daily whom he met at a
party. He joins an architect and soon begins to work for a client, Mr. Sahota
where he bumps into child labour and begins social work of teaching the underprivileged
kids with the help of his friends, Janvi and Mansi. He starts falling for Mansi
but things aren’t meant to be sweet always. Superna wants to come back and he
even gets suspected for Mr. Sahota’s murder.
- Will Rishabh be able to get Mansi?
- Will he come out clear of the murder case?
- Has Mr. Sahota been really murdered or there something else to it? This is for you to find out.
There are a few extremely good things about
this book that makes it a joyful read, one of them being at page 60 where we
get to know about how the title comes up, orange being a mixture of two
colours, red and yellow. The book gives us a lot of messages.
It’s
not wrong to struggle to find out what you really want to do for the rest of
your life.
You
can’t force someone to stay with you. And even if you succeeded, it would never
last.
These are a few lines that teach us some
truths about our life.
The book talks about child trafficking and
child labour, a social issue that has struck India since long. We all should
get together to teach these poverty stricken children just like Rishabh starts.
He is an epitome of kindness. The book is dedicated to ‘Gabru Chotta Kutta Jawan’, a pup that Rishabh saves after being
wounded.
And just like two faces of a coin, I’ve
found out a few errors in the book as well which I certainly didn’t expect.
They could be printing mistakes as well. With due apologies to the author, on
page 14, we get to see ‘off’ written as ‘of’ and on page 63 ‘specially’ instead
of ‘especially’.
Apart from this, a very fun filled book
that is a combo of light fiction with a tinge of murder mystery. Hats Off to
Rahul Saini for bringing up a book that revolves on so many topics giving such
really amazing teachings in his own way.
By:
Harshita Srivastava
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