Due to SEO reasons I am recalling this post partially.
Because the story is supposed to be based on real incidents, I found few odd things in the story:
The 3 mistakes of Chetan Bhagat-in this book
Mistake One
The whole Ali story looks suspicious for me-here’re my points
a. Can anyone really fool an entire set of stadium officials with one VIP visiting card? Ali is taken to Goa stadium and Govind flashes a visiting card to the security guard, stating he is a rich businessman and wants to get an Australian player as brand ambassador. Security guard in turn consults a set of officials and lets them in to VIP stand after detaining Omi. Isn’t that ODD? When VIPs visit some places do guards detain someone from their team? Stadium officials just let them sit in VIP stand? Why didn’t they introduce these people to someone from the team-say team manager or someone for further talks? When a business man wishes to hire a celebrity for endorsement they approach the celebrity through proper channels-not by bumping into them while they play. Throughout the storyline no one else(Indian and Australian press, neighbourhood elders etc) notices Ali’s ability?