Book Review: Anything for you, ma’am

Tushar Raheja’s Anything for you, ma’am is a national best seller that deals with the love story of an IIT- ian- Tejus. Tushar himself is an alumni of IIT, Delhi and his book is inspired by his own life and those of his friends at the IIT. Anything for you, Ma’am is a racy romance that whizzes past at supersonic speed. It is highly influenced by Chetan Bhagat’s Five point someone as well as quite a few Bollywood romances, but Tushar has brought in a breezy style of narration that keeps you hooked to the book. Tejus, an IITian in Delhi is in love with his sister’s friend, Shreya, who is in Chennai and wants to bunk his industrial tour to Pune to be with his lady love for at least some time. The plots and the sub plots that he hatches with this end in view and how successfully or unsuccessfully he comes out of each of them is what the book is all about. As I wrote earlier, Tushar has a very good narrative style, only thing is that he goes slightly overboard at times by becoming too wordy about somethings- so much so that you really want the author to stop the non sense and go ahead with the plot. The story and its treatment is so Bollywood- ish and borrow generously from its mindlessness and non- believability. There are coincidences galore towards the end of the story and one cannot help wondering whether such things can really happen in one’s life. It definitely is to Tushar’s credit that he still manages to keep the reader’s interest afloat with his warm, lucid and humorous style. However, at the end of it all, one does feel that a length of 230 pages was not really required for a plot as silly and pedestrian as this. I would not call this one great, but it would still qualify for a “Time pass” read!