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A Bollywood Affair
by Sonali Dev
In a word, I loved this book. I have been anticipating this book's release for months, and several authors I love, like Courtney Milan, have been raving about it. I worried that it wouldn't live up to the hype, but I adored it - I laughed, I cried, and I had a hard time putting it down.
Mili was married at the age of four in her rural village in India to a 12 year old boy. After that, she has never met her husband, but is trapped in her marriage hopeful that someday he will return for her. She is orphaned and raised by her grandmother. She knows her husband is an air force pilot, and convinces her grandmother that her husband would want an educated wife, and goes to America to study on a scholarship.
Samir, a famous Bollywood director, is the brother of her childhood husband. His older brother Virat assumes that his childhood marriage has been annulled and has a very pregnant wife. After something happens to Virat, he learns that the childhood marriage was not annulled and begs his brother Samir to find Mili to annul the marriage so that his child will not be born a bastard.
When Samir knocks on Mili's door she mistakes him for the brother of her recently eloped roommate, and tries to run away so that he can't question her as to the runaway bride's whereabouts. When she's injured in her attempted flight, Samir doesn't have the heart to force the annulment papers on her, and ends up taking care of her and becomes wrapped up in the drama of her roommate's elopement.
This book had several things I loved, it has elements of historical romance fiction -- a childhood engagement/betrothal, and the forbidden love then of a brother, and the added spice of Indian culture and Bollywood. So it's both familiar and new. I would highly recommend this to lovers of both historical and contemporary romances. Like many contemporary romance heroines, Mili has few relatives, and not only comes to love the hero, but yearns for the full teasing family life he has with his brother, mother and sister-in-law.
You don't have to be a lover of all things Bollywood to enjoy it, but there are several little references that bring a smile if you do. Like the hero's older brother saying to the depressed Samir, "Bhai, why are you being all Devdas?" which is a reference to a famous Shahrukh Khan movie in which he dies of a broken heart when his love marries another.
I was lucky to meet the debut author at her book launch, and she confirmed my suspicion that Samir, the hero, is somewhat modeled after Hrithrik Roshan, the famous Bollywood superstar. Those golden eyes and tawny locks were a dead giveaway:
As a friend said, " Wow. Okay, I could read a book about him!"
I'm excited that Sonali Dev is intending this to be the first of a series, and it will be a loooong wait for me until the next book, Bollywood Wedding, comes out in a year! I told Sonali Dev, "Write faster!" It's exciting to find a great new debut author whose characters are something different and new than what we usually see in most contemporary romances.
Mili was married at the age of four in her rural village in India to a 12 year old boy. After that, she has never met her husband, but is trapped in her marriage hopeful that someday he will return for her. She is orphaned and raised by her grandmother. She knows her husband is an air force pilot, and convinces her grandmother that her husband would want an educated wife, and goes to America to study on a scholarship.
Samir, a famous Bollywood director, is the brother of her childhood husband. His older brother Virat assumes that his childhood marriage has been annulled and has a very pregnant wife. After something happens to Virat, he learns that the childhood marriage was not annulled and begs his brother Samir to find Mili to annul the marriage so that his child will not be born a bastard.
When Samir knocks on Mili's door she mistakes him for the brother of her recently eloped roommate, and tries to run away so that he can't question her as to the runaway bride's whereabouts. When she's injured in her attempted flight, Samir doesn't have the heart to force the annulment papers on her, and ends up taking care of her and becomes wrapped up in the drama of her roommate's elopement.
This book had several things I loved, it has elements of historical romance fiction -- a childhood engagement/betrothal, and the forbidden love then of a brother, and the added spice of Indian culture and Bollywood. So it's both familiar and new. I would highly recommend this to lovers of both historical and contemporary romances. Like many contemporary romance heroines, Mili has few relatives, and not only comes to love the hero, but yearns for the full teasing family life he has with his brother, mother and sister-in-law.
You don't have to be a lover of all things Bollywood to enjoy it, but there are several little references that bring a smile if you do. Like the hero's older brother saying to the depressed Samir, "Bhai, why are you being all Devdas?" which is a reference to a famous Shahrukh Khan movie in which he dies of a broken heart when his love marries another.
I was lucky to meet the debut author at her book launch, and she confirmed my suspicion that Samir, the hero, is somewhat modeled after Hrithrik Roshan, the famous Bollywood superstar. Those golden eyes and tawny locks were a dead giveaway:
As a friend said, " Wow. Okay, I could read a book about him!"I'm excited that Sonali Dev is intending this to be the first of a series, and it will be a loooong wait for me until the next book, Bollywood Wedding, comes out in a year! I told Sonali Dev, "Write faster!" It's exciting to find a great new debut author whose characters are something different and new than what we usually see in most contemporary romances.