This blog is a response to a task assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. In the paper Contemporary English Literature, This blog deals the Chetan Bhagat’s 5th Novel Revolution 2020 which was Published in 2011. This blog deals with the tile significance and social realism in Revolution 2020 (R2020) and an insight about How it would be better if it were narrated from Raghav or Aarti's perspective.
About Author
Chetan Bhagat, a 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 Bhagat status of the youth icon.
All of them were bestsellers since their release and have been filmed by famous Bollywood directors. Chetan Bhagat is considered a youth icon rather than as just an author. With his vivid and humorous way of depicting stories, he has inspired reading habits in many young Indians. He is also a good columnist and writes columns for many leading newspapers. According to him, novels are entertainment tools through which he expresses his views and opinion about society and the youth. Development issues and national issues are addressed through columns. Chetan's columns are written in a way that directly points out the issues within our country and in many times it has even triggered discussions in the parliament. He is not only a good writer but also a motivational speaker and has given many motivational speeches at many colleges, organizations and companies.
Novels of Chetan Bhagat:
- Five point someone
- One night @call center(2006)
- The Three mistakes of my life (2008)
- 2 states (2009)
- Revolution 2020 (2011)
- Half Girlfriend(2014)
- One Indian girl (2016)
- The Girl in room 105 (2018)
- one arrange murder (2020)
- 400 days (2021)
Writing Style of Chetan Bhagat
The writing style of Chetan Bhagat is youth friendly he always take side of the youth character rather than old one. He has focused the interest of the youth and has written about their aspirations.
He has attempts to guide their ripe energies into proper direction. He is not only considered as an author by the readers but also considered as the
youth icon. Revolution 2020 is looking like quite Bollywoodish novel.
Bhagat use simple language in his work which can be simply understand by readers. Those who read bhagat they became fan of him, but there are also haters of him here i put that video in which one lady is against Chetan Bhagat. The name of that show is "Love to Hate You"
About Novel Revolution 2020
The novel mainly deals with the theme of Love, Corruption and Ambition. There are many characters in the novel in that three major characters are :
Gopal
Aarti
Raghav
The Novel has setting of Varanasi as the cover page of the novel also show the reader that there is something of Varanasi there is also description of Varanasi that the word varanasi is made by two words Varun+Assi there is also detailed description of it.
In the novel there is three major character
Gopal :who is protagonist of the novel who wanted to use his intelligence to make money.
Aarti: Aarti wanted to be An Airhostess but she was not so much passionate regarding her career her father was District magistrate .
Raghav: Raghav wanted to use his intelligence to start revolution he was one in novel who passed both the exam AIEEE and also JEE.
Social Realism in the novel
The novel is Mainly Based on the youth issues which is also seen in contemporary life, and novel also deals with political issue like education in corruption and many more things which is also social reality of contemporary life.
The whole novel revolves around the three main characters Gopal, Aarti, and Raghav all of three were school friends and IIT aspirants. Raghav’s father of engineer (educated), Aarti’s father was an Ias officer and Gopal’s father was a school teacher and farmer. All three had different family backgrounds, Raghav could crack the AIEEE/ JEE exam with a good rank and got admission to BHU-IT while Gopal cracked the exam but couldn't score well. So, he was sent to Kota the preparation for the exam. Aarti’s character keeps on oscillating between her love interest Raghav and Gopal.
this novel deals with the concerns in the life of youth. Raghav got admission to BHU- IT but he wished to be a social reformer and after his education, he began a newspaper named Revolution 2020 in which he used to write the social and political realities of the societies. Gopal met MLA Shuklaji when he was very young and without having finished his schooling. He then started a private college, and the entire institution is built on corruption and bribery, beginning with the purchase of land. Gopal saw everything in terms of money, and he spoke in constant monetary terms. here the bhagat wants to show ugly face of Indian Education System through the setting of Kota and how Gopal who was uneducated running a private college for Engineering. At the end of the novel Gopal visits raghav's Garage where he is running his newspaper revolution 2020 Gopal came there with his black Mercedes which is show off of Gopal's wealth and this incident show the readers that Gopal wanted to show his superiority.
In addition to showing the deplorable side of the private education system, Bhagat also depicts the scenarios of Kota, Rajasthan, which has developed into a coaching school hub and is still present in 2023. It also depicts the incident involving Manoj Dutta, the former PG in Gopal's room, who hanged himself. Gopal's father wanted him to become an engineer, which is the genuine tale in the lives of many children, thus he was compelled to attend school in Kota.
Significance of the title 'Revolution Twenty20'
If we study the cover page then we came to know that revolution title itself including the theme of Love which is can be seen in character of Aarti.
- The word Love is included in this Revolutionary narrative through artful title writing. The title implies that the emphasis on the theme of revolution is weighing down on the theme of love.
- The love -story has the canvas story of revolution or vice-versa.
- The theme of revolution is covered in the theme of love.
Another observation can be that in 2011 there is IPL Twenty20 along with that year only here chetan Bhagat use twenty 20 only which we interpret to refer to the cricket frenzy that year because it was published in 2011. This is a lacuna in the title's explanation that we are attempting to fill. The author has never explicitly explained anything in this area.
Do you think that an opportunity for a good novel is wasted because the story is told from Gopal's perspective? Can it be better if narrated from Raghav or Aarti's perspective? How would it be better if it was narrated from Raghav or Aarti's perspective?
Yes it is because it is only told from the perspective of Gopal only and he is only talking about his life he is not talking about that what happened with Raghav and what about his newspaper Revolution 2020 in the beginning Aarti wanted to be Airhostess here author can not bring perspective of All characters.
If it would be narrated by Raghav Kashyap then it would be better because in the novel Raghav is only who cracked AIEEE with good score. Instead of choose Engineering he choose the field of Journalism by which he can bring revolution. for his passion he didn't give time to Aarti.
on the other hand our protagonist Gopal who wanted to be Engineer but he can not scoring well in exam then he goes to private coaching center Kota Rajasthan and after that he became director of the private college by the way of corruption Raghav Kashyap had recounted it instead of Gopal Mishra, whose narration is overshadowed by the theme of love. Despite being an educated scholar and coming from an upper-class, conventional household, it can be challenging to follow your passion. Aarti abandons her goals to become a regular girlfriend or bride in today's environment when students like Gopal look for life's shortcuts. For young people trying to navigate the challenging questions of life, Raghav's narrative may have been motivational.
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