Half Girlfriend is a romantic novel written by Chetan Bhagat. The is also a film of the same name directed by Mohan Suri based on the novel. The leading characters are Madhav Jha, Riya Somani, Anshika and Shailesh. It is the story of a Bihari boy named Madhav Jha whose mother tongue is Hindi. He cannot speak English well. Madhav joins St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, through the sports quota as a student of Sociology. There he meets Riya Somani, who is a basketball player, and instantly falls in love with her. She speaks English well and belongs to a rich family. They start bonding over their shared interest - basketball and soon, he asks her out. Riya challenges him to score a basket, but makes it clear that it’s not a date and they’re just hanging out. Shailesh, a college friend of Madhav always gives him advise Riya and Madhav cannot be more than friends because of their difference in status. Riya suggests that she can be his’Half Girlfriend’. Madhav accepts this - she is’more than a friend, less than a girlfriend’. After this there is a long break when Riya gets married to a man settled abroad but later they are divorced. When Riya comes to Patna on a job, Madhav meets her and later comes to know that she is suffering from blood cancer. Madhav goes abroad looking for his half girlfriend. Later, they get married because of the efforts of Shailesh and his wife Anisha.