Book Review- "Three Mistakes of My Life". By CHETAN BHAGAT

KAHANI PURI FILMI HAI!!! Dis was da first thing dat came to my mind after readin the book. M sure that if the first 2 books eluded the bollywood icons, then this surely is a masala content for them to work upon! Love, Lust, Thrill, Violence, Blood, Drama, Events & Politics are clubbed together, baked & then presented in this book. After his first two books we expected something better & different from Chetan Bhagat. This book seems to be running on the same lines as his series opener-'Five Point Someone'.
First I'd like to highlight the similarity & then go ahead. 3 lead characters, one beautiful heroine & a System! The lead character here too is a mediocre guy Govind (similar to Hari), who has only one amibition- to earn lots of money. The second guy is Ishaan-a dude, who is passionate, has capabilities but no Aim (Remember Ryan?), hence a worthless son for the family! He's smart, capable yet hopeless. The third is Omi- if the second was a dude, he's a Dud (like Alok?). No ambition, incapable, but can do anything for friendship. & Then the heroine is the most beautiful lady you can find around, here she is Vidya (Same as Neha there). Chetan has again kept a mediocre guy as the central person, whom any reader can quite easily relate to. The good thing about the book is that he has artistically weaved some series of contemporary events around the story to make it interesting. This time the plot is weaved in a small town around Ahmedabad(probably to pay a tribute to his Alma Mater IIM-A).
Anyways, the story goes quite smoothly, without much hiccups. A reader can probably guess while reading through the story, that what would the next set of events be. The three mistakes that the central character does are quite easily recognizable from his character-
The biggest Mistake a businessman can do is putting his money at the wrong place!
Second- though an apathetic person, he gets into an affair with his Best Friend's sister, to the extent of having the S** word with her!!! nothing can be worse!Third- Being a Maths prodigy, the habit of calculating risks on basis of logical abilities rather than situational sensibilities!! This let him commit his third Mistake which changed the course of his life.
The story initiates in an interesting manner, cruises in the middle & catches pace in the end. Readers would enjoy it overall as a drama, but nothing extraordinary comes out in the End. In fact, the author is unable to justify in the end as to why did Govind (the central character) mail him 3 yrs after all his mistakes & confided to him before commiting a fatal suicide?

OVERALL- I believe the story was weaved nicely but the plot could get better with some twists rather than letting it go straight. Also, Chetan should have worked more on the characters. Obviously its just a 3rd book from him so people would compare it with previous ones & thus feel it insufficient to appease their appetite. I have avoided my best not to reveal any story, so that though you get a brief here but you then too enjoy reading it!