Book Title: The Color of Love
Publisher: Notion Press
Author: Jagdish Joghee
'The Color of Love' is Mr. Joghee's second offering and a worthy addition to his repertoire after making an impressive debut with 'In Love and Free'. Love and more importantly, 'selfless love' is again given a central theme here and author builds up his story from two key geographical locations in Sharjah, Dubai and Coimbatore, India. Geography plays a key role in Mr. Joghee's work for I had noticed him using Sri Lanka's picturesque places like Kandy and Bentota for giving his story another twist in his first novel. Our protagonist, Sarfaraz, works as a senior sales manager for Michelin Tyre in Dubai and is a successful corporate personnel but he has got a rough past where he is not only labelled as a goon and thug but also loses (presumably) the love of his life, Meghna who he had come to recognize his true love after much deliberation and several confrontations with her friends and fiance. Sarfaraz's Muslim identity also gets questioned in the novel when a bomb blast in Coimbatore takes place but it's Meghna's love for him and her smartness that stops her father, prospective father-in-law and his fiance to have a crack at Sarfaraz. However, that bomb blast not only leaves the city of Coimbatore in tatters but also Sarfaraz's life as he discovers a gruesome truth immediately after this horrific incident. This truth gives birth to Sarfaraz's agony and he wants to live the city of his birth for good and one day, flies to Sharjah to start a new life but does he succeed in maintaining a harmless distance from his past? You have got to figure that out in the book!!!!
The crux of the novel, given here, tells us a small story though and one albeit very simple. Mr. Joghee has worked tremendously well over his protagonist, Sarfaraz and given him a life full of contrasts. And then there are characters of Sidharth (Sarfaraz's sworn enemy), Mithun, Rameez (Sarafarz's so-called best friend), Vasudev (a friend in need), Avantika, Puja and Meghna (his true love). Each one has an importance here and they have all contributed to this novel's plot immensely. There is depth in the basic story line of Mr. Joghee's second novel and it's in stark contrast with his first offering which was much simpler in terms of plot but quite enriched in emotional and aesthetic values. 'Character development' is Mr. Joghee's forte and as described in detail above, he has again performed brilliantly. The book also scores heavily over all the technical points viz grammar, editing and proofreading that add to a reader's delight. Language used is simpler as compared to Author's first outing and it doesn't strain. The readers, with this book, will finally have a sense of fulfillment in terms of having a real, compounding work of literature.
Rating: 4/5
Publisher: Notion Press
Author: Jagdish Joghee
'The Color of Love' is Mr. Joghee's second offering and a worthy addition to his repertoire after making an impressive debut with 'In Love and Free'. Love and more importantly, 'selfless love' is again given a central theme here and author builds up his story from two key geographical locations in Sharjah, Dubai and Coimbatore, India. Geography plays a key role in Mr. Joghee's work for I had noticed him using Sri Lanka's picturesque places like Kandy and Bentota for giving his story another twist in his first novel. Our protagonist, Sarfaraz, works as a senior sales manager for Michelin Tyre in Dubai and is a successful corporate personnel but he has got a rough past where he is not only labelled as a goon and thug but also loses (presumably) the love of his life, Meghna who he had come to recognize his true love after much deliberation and several confrontations with her friends and fiance. Sarfaraz's Muslim identity also gets questioned in the novel when a bomb blast in Coimbatore takes place but it's Meghna's love for him and her smartness that stops her father, prospective father-in-law and his fiance to have a crack at Sarfaraz. However, that bomb blast not only leaves the city of Coimbatore in tatters but also Sarfaraz's life as he discovers a gruesome truth immediately after this horrific incident. This truth gives birth to Sarfaraz's agony and he wants to live the city of his birth for good and one day, flies to Sharjah to start a new life but does he succeed in maintaining a harmless distance from his past? You have got to figure that out in the book!!!!
The crux of the novel, given here, tells us a small story though and one albeit very simple. Mr. Joghee has worked tremendously well over his protagonist, Sarfaraz and given him a life full of contrasts. And then there are characters of Sidharth (Sarfaraz's sworn enemy), Mithun, Rameez (Sarafarz's so-called best friend), Vasudev (a friend in need), Avantika, Puja and Meghna (his true love). Each one has an importance here and they have all contributed to this novel's plot immensely. There is depth in the basic story line of Mr. Joghee's second novel and it's in stark contrast with his first offering which was much simpler in terms of plot but quite enriched in emotional and aesthetic values. 'Character development' is Mr. Joghee's forte and as described in detail above, he has again performed brilliantly. The book also scores heavily over all the technical points viz grammar, editing and proofreading that add to a reader's delight. Language used is simpler as compared to Author's first outing and it doesn't strain. The readers, with this book, will finally have a sense of fulfillment in terms of having a real, compounding work of literature.
Rating: 4/5
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