Half Girlfriend Paperback – Import, 1 Oct 2014

Chetan! Chetan! Who are you?
Where are you headed, do you have a clue?
I bought your book and read it through,
Trust me dear, there is nothing new!

A horny hero and a pretty heroine,
A prestigious college, stereotypic routine!
The story line is an absolute miss,
Front page ad in TOI, for a book like this?

The back cover talks about Hindi and English,
All that is just plain marketing rubbish.
This book breaks no language differences,
Hasn’t even escaped Bhagat’s prejudiced preferences.

I loved you once when you wrote good fun.
Best of all, ‘Five Point Someone’.
Since then you are stooping to your lowest low,
Half Girlfriend, your final blow?

Same story twice, can be an honest mistake.
But three and four times? Give me a break!
Name your leads and share your location,
I can write your next story to Bhagat’s perfection.

“Simple English is my style”,
Says Chetan Bhagat all the time.
I am happy with that, totally fine.
But excuse me mister, where is the storyline?

Your sexist one-liners are witty no more,
Don’t you remember, you’ve told them before?
You claim that your writing is for the rich to the slums,
They have better IQs than that, don’t underestimate them.

You are an author who could have been!
You’ve let it go for the silver screen.
Are you trying to increase you reader hood?
Or simply selling out to Bollywood?

There have been authors just like you,
Who’ve written good books and screenplays too.
But you’ve got too carried away and lost the act,
And quoting your Alma matter to hide that fact.

Chetan O’ Chetan, Where are you?
I am not an elitist, I used to really like you.
Give us simple but also different and new.
Slow your star-chase and get real dude!

One word- AWFUL!!! Chetan Bhagat needs to understand, if we are purchasing a book and taking our time in reading it, we would need good content to keep us going. The book started off fine but by the time you reach the middle, you'd be trying really hard to read all the lines. I really had to convince myself,"it will get interesting by the next page! It lacks pace and a good story line!

Its hard to believe this guy wrote "Five point someone" !!!

Of all of the Chetan Bhagat's stories , this might look the most un real one. It was actually more like a Karan Johar type bollywood drama. Even though it was a fine story, the last part of the book where Madhav found Riya only on his last day in US seemed very unrealistic. First off, you hardly can find people like Madhav who can be so mad in love for a girl and could not forget her even after 2 and half years and secondly running till US with no proper information about the girl and finding it just on the last day of the stay was just over the top.
The best part about the book was the story about the school which Madhav and his mother intended to grow and make it a success. The speech that Madhav delivered will give a strong message to all the people reading this book. That is something to be proud of. I wish there could be any 'real' Madhav in today's world who can be so determined and passionate in whatever they wish for- whether it being raising a school in rural India or running behind your love. His character was just amazing!
Anyway, overall a nice book. And as always, Chetan Bhagat's book always keep you holding till the end!

Half star for CB’s Half girlfriend Need I say more?

Okay here it goes... apart from the age old clichés this book is just an exact copy of his earlier novels, but in a hideous way. The story like others includes some sports with hardly any connection + Bill Gates out of nowhere. There is absolutely zero depth story wise or character-wise. About writing I can say the language is actually deteriorating in every sense, calling it simple English seems absurd.
Main protagonist ‘the non-English type’(as CB says) Madhav was like a blessing in disguise for this ridiculous language I guess. I must admit each and every dialog in this book was so pathetic that it made me laugh out loud (well, that ½ star is for all those LOL moments).

Looking back now, I don’t find any difference between CB’s male protagonist Govind, Gopal and now Madhav all are same depos, chepos , self pitting jerks yet behave like innocents in the end and all his female protagonist Vidya, Aarthi and now Riya all are so silly and lame that they always end up taking stupid decisions. There is absolutely no character differentiation amongst them what so ever. On top of that the main characters are always behind the author himself to share their life stories so that he can save them in the end and write an epic story out of it. God, Give me a break!!!!

Coming back to ½ Girlfriend how the hell the title is apt for the story I am unable understand. Is it because Riya just allowed despo Madhav to kiss her and refrains him to do anything beyond that, is that it? I don’t know how else to justify this stupid title for this awful story.
I don’t even understand how people are considering this as a Bollywood script(story) in my opinion it shouldn’t even be qualifying for that.