The Three Mistakes Of My Life (Paperback)

While reading the epilogue I had thought that this novel would be the most boring of chetan’s all. But it wasn’t. In my perception this is best of all chetan’s books. Let us come to the story. The story is multi dimensional. One lane tells about the three boys struggling without a strong financial base and their efforts to boost up their status. Each of these boys also has an individual lane. Gopal has a love story with vidya, ishaan’s sister. Ishaan whose passion is cricket tries to bring up a Muslim kid Ali in cricket, who has super movement control power in brain by birth. Omi a Brahmin boy, orthodox in Hinduism is influenced by his mama, who wants to be an MLA. What happens when these intertwined lanes merge to a crescendo? Chetan comes with a convincing climax.
This story has three very strong points. First, it travels in parallel with some real incidents which skip a heartbeat of most of the people in India. Second, it has the controlling nerve of all Indians -cricket. It surely won’t miss to impress those who love cricket, like me. Third, Chetan handled the controversial Hindu- Muslim confrontation storyline very maturely. And as usual the English is simple to read. It won’t let you to search dictionary often.
The story has some negative points also. The epilogue starts with the suicide letter of Gopal mishra. But the reason for his suicide is not convincing (seems childish to me), as he is described as the matured among the three. The sequence in Australia is Mind-numbing. It could have been more gripping.

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