Half Girlfriend

                     Half Girlfriend

Author Chetan Bhagat
Country India
Language English
Genre Romance
Publisher Rupa & Co.
Publication date
October 2014
Media type Print (paperback)
Pages 260
ISBN 978-81-291-3572-8
Half Girlfriend is a young adult romance fiction novel by Chetan Bhagat released on 1 October 2014.[1] The story is about a boy Madhav who hails from Bihar and has come to Delhi to take admission in a st. stephen's college College. He meets a girl Riya on the first day of college. The story revolves around the protagonist Madhav and that how he falls in love with Riya, but she only agrees to be his half-girlfriend.

Plot summary

Main characters

Madhav Jha, A guy from Bihar
Riya Somani, a Delhi girl
Rani sahiba, madhav's mother
Shailesh, Madhav's college friend
Rohan Chandak, Riya's ex-husband
Chetan Bhagat, as himself
MLA Ojha, in Bihar
Erica, A bar singer in New York
Samantha Myers, From the Bill Gates Foundation
Reception

Rituparna Chatterjee of CNN-IBN called it a "massively disappointing book written exclusively for another Bollywood sobfest".[2] Pranav Joshi of Daily News and Analysis called it "old wine in new glass" with a rehashed storyline that promotes negative stereotypes.[3] Saket Suman of The Statesman called it "in no way convincing as a novel" and suggested that people wait for the Bollywood adaptation.[4]

On 9 November 2014, Devapriya Roy wrote an open letter in the voice of the character Riya Somani to Chetan Bhagat. Riya expresses her displeasure by briefly asking how readers will understand her side of the story by just going through six entries from her personal journal which is cited in the novel. She also shares that her death was faked by the author in the novel just to give a taste to the readers.[5]

References

^ "Chetan Bhagat tweets about new book, his site crashes on announcement!". The Economic Times. Press Trust of India. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
^ Chatterjee, Rituparna (10 October 2010). "Interactive, live review of Chetan Bhagat's 'Half Girlfriend' on Facebook and Twitter: A massively disappointing book written exclusively for another Bollywood sobfest". CNN-IBN. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
^ Joshi, Pranav. "Book Review: Half Girlfriend is old wine in new bottle". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
^ Suman, Saket (22 October 2014). "Watch the adaptation of Half Girlfriend". The Statesman. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
^ "An open letter from Riya Somani to Chetan Bhagat". Scroll.in. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2015.