So I wanted to explore a genre that creates more thrill and proves to be a better page-turner. ‘Did the boy kill the girl’ is more interesting. Attention spans have become lesser and people are not so excited any more to know if the boy got the girl at the end. However, I got a great response when I tried it. Normally the best-selling genre is crime, but I hadn’t done that for the first seven books. The last book was a thriller, a murder mystery. This is my ninth book and the first seven were all some kind of love stories. This is the first time you have used recurring characters with a story that well could have picked off from where the last one left off… Hardcore readers will pick up the book anyway but there are people who only read Chetan Bhagat (laughs) and to those people I have to say ‘Hello, I write books, please come and read’. It is my way of connecting the video world to the world of the book. And if I want to make them read a book, I have to give them a medium that would intrigue them. I can’t do a traditional book launch and video consumption is the way forward, be it Instagram or YouTube. In the midst of lockdown, this is something that we can do with reduced mobility. So we find you returning to the book trailer concept for the second time…
On the day of the release of his trailer, starring Vikrant Massey, Bhagat got on a quick Zoom call with The Telegraph to discuss everything that led to Bhagat’s ninth book. Characters like Keshav and Saurabh appear again in this one as they investigate the disappearance of the woman who almost married the latter. Continuing with the experiment he started doing with his genre and structure in the last book, The Girl in Room 105, this one too is a thriller where an arranged marriage takes a wild turn with an unprecedented murder. As has been the norm in the past, Chetan Bhagat, who treats his fans to a new book every two years, is ready with his next called One Arranged Murder (Westland Rs 225).
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