I think I read a Hindi novel long back, and my last Hindi book was ’Daulat Aur Khoon’ I think. Just 5 days back, I was reading ’The Hunger Games’, sudden a mood change happened, I saw ’Pyaada’ which was lying in the closet, and suddenly I felt an urge to read it, and today, I am here to present a review on it, just few hours back I finished this book ’Pyaada’ written by most famous Hindi language writer Surendra Mohan Pathak. Short and simple - a good timepass, mystery is not such great, but handling was grest, easy an fast read, though dialoguebaazi is too much.
As the name suggest, this is a story about pawns, who’s who, who is the mastermind behind every murders and like that. There is a PD, ohh sorry, Private Detective Sudhir Kohli, who is also a friend of Rounak Khurana, a bar-cum-restaurant owner, and his son, Lucky Khurana is found dead in his own fully-furnished apartment. Someone has killed him, and now it’s Sudhir’s turn to find it out. Meanwhile we come to know about the Bar status, someone wants to take it, but its lease is still not over, 10 more years are remaining. There’s a lady named Kaveri Kukreja, involved somehow in this, and there’s a big man also indulged named Kansal (the owner of Kansal and Kukreja Properties). Lucky has earn a suspicious commission of 90 lacs before dying. And an innocent bookie Balkishan Thakkar aka Balli is caught for murdering Lucky, which he didn’t do. Then who is behind the murder, and two more murders happened. Check out the novel.
As per content, and story behind the mystery, it can be said as one of the weakest mysteries, and a reader who is a regular of his novels or even any mystery writer’s regular, can easily guess that, so not much work was done behind the plot, but I must say, that it was well handled, I guessed somethings, but when revealation happened, I liked it, I liked how all the things which came earlier as a clue was presented, and that was good. Just like we say in the case of movies, that even if your story is wafer thin, if you present it well, you can get accolades. This book is easy read and anyone like me can read it fast enough. I completed this book of 317 pages in 5 days. Yes, I must say that too much dialoguebaazi is there, too much of talking and so many of english words are used, somehow some dialogues looks added just to pass the pages, and also some dialogues even didn’t look like anybody can ever say those kind of lines in a real scenario. But then you can think it’s a novel, not a reality, and that’s why you bought that book to get something different.
This book also contains a short story named ’Humshakal’ which was good, although it looks to me as copied from some english novel, all the way upto end, it was good, but the climax just ruined the ending of story. It’s a story of a pair. One fine day some duplicate of man Makrand appears from nowhere, and confusion started, that duplicate is actually interfering in Makrand’s life and money, and killed a man, but truth is something else. There may not be any duplicate but only Makrand.
This book was written by Surendra Mohan Pathak, and I got it for Rs.50, and its first Hindi novel I bought, and its belongs to Detective Sudhir Kohli series (SMP has 3 series). You can read this book as a good timepass. My Take 3/5.
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