Review of the book - Right Fit Wrong Shoe by Varsha Dixit

Saturday afternoon, I wondered how I could spend the remaining of the day, with a cancelled plan and no-good-to-see anything in the TV. I had picked up a book from a library nearby named “Right Fit Wrong Shoe” magnetized by the title of it. I tried to read the book, the same night after having worked late, realizing that I made a wrong decision to return the book unread, that day. But luckily flipped some pages of it, today

The book will be loved by an ardent bollywood follower or bollywood lover or may be just a viewer. But more could be associated by people, who sometimes live the light moments of their day-to-day life quoting some of the bollywood pick-up-lines or some catchy songs. Well the songs might range from being an “irritator” having some of the repeating phrases, to some having undiscovered-words-making-no-sense, but stick on to our tongues from nowhere and are just lingering in our mouths, till the end of the day getting strange looks from people around you, initially and getting promoted to angry looks accompanied by words, towards the end of it.

As the characters of the play, begin to unwrap themselves in the story, and the center of the plot being a heartbroken woman, who was “terribly” in love, I got deeper into the book. The best part of it, which distinguishes it from the other chick-flick novels, being the way the characters were revealed. The “hero” was not described as a rich handsome attractive young business man all in one go, but just got pictured as one, as the story took its route. The same was replicated for “Nandini”, the female lead. During the read, just when you start feeling bad or (for more the emotional) shed a tear for the heart broken, you will immediately cast a smile on your face with the famous ol’ bollywood dialogs cited by the characters in the plot comprising of a fourth of the words which were used to write the book. It had all the important highlights of the bollywood, including dialogs from the recent n popular – Jab we met. Even each name of the chapter was an excerpt from a bollywood movie or the name of the bollywood movie itself. The capstone during my read, was the famous pick-up line from the movie – “Maine Pyar Kiya”. The line from the book as it is – “How dare you forget the first tenet of love set by Maine Pyar Kiya? Ek Ladka ladki kabhi doost nahi hotein. Kapkapati raatein, bhadakti aag, dhadakte jism etc., remember”. And the line was uttered during a serious conversation of trying to induce the female protagonist to come out of a broken relationship by a friend. And I personally would buy this line - a friend saying this… J

I just loved the narration of the story and successfully recalling the flashback love-story to the readers, keeping - love, lust, heartbreak, tears, laughs and all other human sentiments in equal proportions with an analogy to the bolly-kind-of-movies and at the same pace throughout the read. Wow! That was almost like picturizing a super-hit movie.

Varsha Dixit has brought in a new style of writing which is simple, yet so enjoyable and entertaining 4 hour read, with mixed emotions flowing through the readers’ mind and keeping the fingers glued to the book except to turn the leaves of it. Though the story might be one of those cliché kinds, but the narration and its “exclusivity” is what one might like. A sure-shot try for our film-makers to get their hands on this story, is my suggestion ;).