Synopsis:
When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when not eating with her results in defeat, they decide she's a lucky charm. The nation goes a step further. Amazed at the ragtag team's sudden spurt of victories, it declares her a Goddess. So when the eccentric IBCC president and his mesmeric, always-exquisitely-attired Swamiji invite Zoya to accompany the team to the tenth ICC World Cup, she has no choice but to agree. Pursued by international cricket boards on the one hand, wooed by Cola majors on the other, Zoya struggles to stay grounded in the thick of the world cup action. And it doesn't help that she keeps clashing with the erratically brilliant new skipper who tells her flatly that he doesn't believe in luck...
Review:
If I were to describe this book in one word, it would be 'dumb'.
books. Alas, they both were wrong this time. I think I lost few of grey matter while reading this book. The facts looks like thoroughly googled and put together. Nothing wrong in that but looks obvious. The dialogues are loosely put, the narration horribly written. The hinglish did not have that kind of charm. In fact, I usually like a good mix of hindi and english in writing but this one looked super imposed. The book is not at all funny, nethier is it crazy. There was only one dialogue which really cracked me up. That too because I think I have heard it from someone before. It is a typical advertising agency thing I guess. I have read better chick-lits, by Indian writers too. I am not a big fan of Cricket, neither do I have much knowledge about the sport but this book is thouroughly disrespectful. The writer has no idea what so ever she is talking about Cricket. She seems to have a very different opinion about the game itself. I generally don't ask people to NOT read something. There is always a first time for everything. Do not pick this one up. And it seems it has won awards. For a country that makes Chennai Express a 200 crore film, anything is possible.
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