I was given a very lucrative offer in the start of my career in Mumbai. I couldn’t take it as they wanted me to relocate to Mumbai. No offence to mumbaikars but I feel Mumbai is a love-hate city (People either love it to the extent of swearing by it or do not want to be there at all).
A month back I happen to get my hands on “Maximum City” by Suketu Mehta which has presented the Mumbai city in a different way (to me at least). The book started by establishing his long lost connection with the city and drawing out interesting comparison between then and now. Slowly it becomes more generic where it talks about various facets of Mumbai like the underworld, the cops, the pros, film industry and roping into all this is the common man’s life.
The real life depiction and the nitty gritty’s make it very easy for the reader to associate with it and understand it. In between it also has a subtle class in capturing emotions, aspirations and dreams. This could strike well with the readers who are neither fiction obsessed nor heavy on class and serious literature.
At the end I would say a slightly elaborative read but gripping and worth a read.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
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