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Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat, rising star in the contemporary modern Indian literature, is a multitalented personality. He is a novelist, columnist, public speaker and a screenplay writer. His notable works include Five Point Someone, The 3 Mistakes of My Life and 2 States.Most of his literary works address the issues related to Indian youth and their aspirations which earned Baghat status of the youth icon.
Revolution Twenty20
Revolution 2020 is a gripping and fast paced novel about love, corruption and ambition. The story delves into the underbelly of a small town, Varanasi, and explores the various hues in the characters of the protagonists in it. Bhagat unearths the darker side of the education system, and for that matter, love too.
In the small and historic town of Varanasi in India, two boys Raghav and Gopal fall in love with the same girl, Aarti. Both of them are intelligent, ambitious and are the best of friends, but destiny has something else in store for them. One of them wants to use his intelligence to make a lot of money and the other wants to create a revolution; but again, their plans are disrupted by their love.
Gopal hails from a poor family and fails to get an admission to the best engineering colleges in the country. Heartbroken, he moves to Kota for a year to prepare for the exams. Raghav comes from a well-to-do family and achieves a good rank in JEE. Delighted, he joins IIT-BHU, one of the premier institutes of India, and embarks on his ambition to become a journalist. Aarti hails from a powerful bureaucratic family, and her aim is to become an airhostess. Aarti falls in love with Raghav while Gopal is at Kota.
The story starts when Gopal rises as the director of a new engineering college opened in Varanasi, with the power of MLA Shukla, a corrupt politician. He uses the legally strangled land of his uncle to manipulate and build the college. Raghav, on the other hand, completes his engineering and joins the largest selling newspaper Dainik as an intern. He starts shedding light on all the wrongdoings of Shukla and exposes him in public.
Things take a different turn when Aarti starts developing a soft corner for Gopal.
Who will win her love towards the end?
Will Raghav’s crusade against the corrupt system fail?
Revolution 2020 is a gripping story of love, the corrupt educational system and clashing ambitions.
Questions - Answer
Q : 1 If you were to adapt this novel for the screen, what sort of changes you would make in the story and characters to make it better than the novel?
Ans:
If I'm adapted The novel 'Revolution Twenty20 for the screen paly I would like to change Story and character of Gopal, Raghav and Arti. When we read The tile of the novel 'Revolution Twenty20' we can assume that the novel is about the Revolution but when we read the novel we can find that the novel about Love mora than Revolution. So I would like change here that Revolution depicted more than love.
In the Novel we can see the two main male characters Raghav and Gopal. Gopal who wanted to use his intelligence to make money and second character is Raghav who wanted to use his intelligence to start a revolution. In tbis novel Raghav presents as a week character. But in my adaptation I will make a strong character of Raghav who fight for Revolution. Why I make strong character of Raghav not Gopal because Raghav is intelligent as well as he was educated more than gopal. So I make Raghav's character more bright in the novel.
In the novel Character of Arti presented as a week character. She is not sure about her love. She love Raghav aftre that Gopal and the end of the novel she married with Raghav. So she is not sure her life. In my adaptation of novel I will make very strong character of Arti who sure about her life. She love Raghav and she helps him for Revolution.
Q : 2 'For a feminist reader, Aarti is a sheer disappointing character.' Do you agree with this statement? If yes, what sort of characteristics you would like to see in Aarti. If you disagree with this statement, why? What is it in Aarti that you are satisfied with this character?
'For a feminist reader, Aarti is a sheer disappointing character'. I agree with this statement. In novel of 'Revolution Twenty20' character of Aarti presented as a week or sheer disappointing character. Aarti doesn't sure about her life that what she wants in her life. Fisrt she attracted toward Raghav because Raghav was clear exam and got a good rank. Gopal was week compared to Raghav. But after that Gopal became more successful compared to Raghav than she attracted toward Gopal and make relation with him. When she real see Gopal with two Girls than she rejected him. At the end of the novel she married with Raghav so here we can see that she is disappointing character.
I would like to see Aarti as a strong character in novel. Who love Raghav and help him in the Revolution. She against corruption.
Q: 3 For a true revolutionist, the novel is terribly disappointing.' Do you agree? If yes, what sort of changes would you make in character or situation to make it a perfect revolutionary novel? If you disagree, what is in the novel that you are satisfied with?
Yes, I strongly agree with the statement that for a tru revolutionist, the novel is terribly disappointing. When we see the title page of the book of Revolution Twenty20 we realize that the novel is about the revolution. But when we read the novel we can say that the novel more focus on love rather than revolution.
I make change in the novel that the novel more focus on Revolution rather than love. The end of the novel we can see that the marriage of Raghav and Aarti. But I change that the end is Aftre marriage Raghav engaged in politics and he removed corruption and make a good country.
Citation
“Book Summary of Revolution 2020.” Awadhplaza, 18 Aug. 2012, https://awadhplaza.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/book-summary-of-revolution-2020/.
“Chetan Bhagat.” Chetan Bhagat | Biography, Books and Facts, https://www.famousauthors.org/chetan-bhagat.
