LIVE: Chetan Bhagat on Google Hangout prior to Half Girlfriend launch

Catch up with Chetan Bhagat talking about his next project Half Girlfriend.

Updated: September 30, 2014 3:18 PM IST

By Priya Prakashan

LIVE: Chetan Bhagat on Google Hangout prior to Half Girlfriend launch

Google Hangout with the bestselling author Chetan Bhagat has just started! Catch up with Chetan Bhagat talking about his next project Half Girlfriend. The even started by Flipkart started today at 2pm on Google+. The author will be answering all your questions. You can leave questions for him and stand a chance to win an absolutely personalized signed copy of half Girlfriend. If you stand out of the crowd with an impressive question you could have the chance to get hands on the signed copy. Flipkart is giving away 5 signed copies of half Girlfriend for the 5 best questions!

He starts off by saying what the plot is about and the conflict in the title that he came up with to make people curious about the story. Broadly it tells about the nature of relationships these days.The middle term between friend and a girlfriend is the bases of this novel. Also read-Half Girlfriend Google Hangout: Catch up with Chetan Bhagat on Google+ and win signed copies

The penetration of this book is incredibly more than that of his last book. People have been going gag over this particular book. This is the first book that has a film adaptation lined up even before the book has been launched. Alia Bhatt is said to be playing the lead role in the movie adaptation. . On Twitter Half Girlfriend reached 3.2 mn, as compared to his previous works, there is a dramatic rise in reach Chetan observed. And since the title was a bit conflicting, it was bound to get a lot of attention, so it got positive as well as negative reaction from people.

Although Chetan says that he has hardly done any media promotions, we beg to differ because the trailer was a major thing that helped in garnering publicity. And prior to the book launch a movie adaptation was also announced. But Chetan is very excited about it since it took him the longest time to come up with this book. It took him three long years to pen down the novel. Since the subject was a challenging one, Chetan took a major chunk of time to write about it. The novel is on the lines of the changing modern relationships and the role of English in our society. Although it has been marketed as a love story it has a lot more substance says the author.

Chetan is known as one of the Indian author who brings about drastic change with each new work that he produces. Although he is tagged as a commercial writer but he begs to differ that ethically is is not at all a commercial writer. Commercial writers do a series of work, but he does not stick to that. He brings out different subjects of the society. He finds it challenging to bring up new subject topics when starting with a new project.

Not only he talks just about his work, he also talks candidly what goes behind his writing and how he deals with the emotions even while coming up with a cathartic topics. He also keeps in check with what young India wants, as he uses a popular idiom and comes up with a realistic work that goes change in society when he comes up with something nonfiction. He says that he wishes to use his popularity to bring attention to some very important issues that we need to address. That is the reason he gets satisfaction when he pens down a column instead of bestselling books.

If Half Girlfriend gives a platform to discuss about English language and issues related to what happens with people who can’t speak English, he believes that half his work is done. But of on the other hand his books do a well job and sells a lot of copies, he wouldn’t consider it satisfactory.

He also reacts to people who believe that he only writes to make his work made into movies by saying that only a small set of people believe this.  He hopes that it could work that way, but he has to make his work more interesting first so as to make his book work. He says that although movies helps him to get publicity, but he writes for the people of the country. He focuses on the language issues and barriers that people face on a daily bases. And also changing modern relationships and the role of English in our society followed by a question answer session with his readers.

The author has also asked the readers to post Flipkart unboxing Half Girlfriend videos and the author will retweet the best ones!

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