“My friend Sancho” is by Amit Varma, blogger at Indiauncut.
Story line- Abir Ganguly was a crime reporter in The Afternoon Mail. A police called him one night to cover a routine arrest. There the cops fired an old guy and tells Abir that the dead man is working for a gangster. Abir reports the same in paper. The next day Abir’s boss, not knowing Abir was at the scene of the crime, asks him to make a story on that, as he came to know that the cop killed an innocent because of wrong information. To know more about the old guy, Abir meets his teenage daughter, Muneeza aka Sancho.
During this course Abir falls in love with that Sancho. She wants the cop who killed her innocent father to get arrested. After talking to the cop about what actually happened, Abir confirms the cop cannot be blamed as it was not intentional and it was just fate. The rest of the story is about how he handles his relation with Sancho in this situation and how she reacts if she comes to know that Abir writes positively about the cop who killed her father.
The story started as a murder mystery but later turned out to be a love story. Though the book was initially gripping, with a not-a-great ending the overall book came down to just- average. Sometimes I felt the author tried hard to make the readers laugh…but it dint happen.
The writing style is good. The story line is tad interesting. you can easily finish this book in one evening.
I din’t understand why the author gave importance to the lizard on the cover page of the book, as it not much related to the story. I even felt the lizard was unnecessarily given space in the story.
Better to go for something else than this.
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