When I was asked to choose a book for review by Writersmelon
I took exactly 22 seconds to lock my heart onto Mohit Goyal’s Colourful
Notions: The Roadtrippers 1.0 (No I don’t run on timer but I have a gut clock
which keeps ticking). Nothing beats a travel book for a wanderlust soul. And, Colourful
Notions does its job of rekindling the travel spirit with pages after pages of
open invitation and perfectly tucked in beckoning Bollywoodish-drama. The title
of the book definitely does justice to the variegated storyline of three
20-something individuals road tripping across the length and breadth of the
conundrum called India.
In the book, the protagonist, Ab decides to undertake a
personal journey of seeing and growing up. And he decides India as his battle
ground. He decides to make his best friend Sasha and Sasha’s girlfriend Unnati
as fellow warriors in the battle that he has wedged with himself. Ab and Sasha
diligently plan out 25 pit stops across the perimeter of India to ensure that
the essence of India remains intact. And after Ab is successful in pursuing
Sasha and Unnati’s parents to make them his side kicks, the three embark on a90
day journey of knowledge, endurance and fulfillment. And what ensues is a riot
of sights and emotions nicely wrapped up in a high voltage entertainment
package. I will not continue harping on the storyline any further. No spoiler
alert.
Mohit Goyal’s style of writing is very lucid and generic in
a good way. He has written a book for all to enjoy. You need not be literarily
bent to finish his book from cover to cover. The story will appeal to all. Some
of us travel and some of us wish to travel but there is none on this planet who
despise travel to see new places. And hence this book, I am sure, will appeal
not just to a wanderlust soul but anyone with travel on their mind. This book
subtly paints a colorful picture of the myriad Indian landscape through the
escapades of Ab, Sasha and Unnati which has an indelible impression on the
reader’s mind and therein lies the success of Mohit Goyal’s Colourful Notions:
The Roadtrippers 1.0. The book has something or the other to take back for
everyone.
Like always, no stars or ratings because numbers can never
do justice to the painstaking efforts an author takes to create a story. Hence,
I would applaud Mohit Goyal for leaving no spice unused to cook up the drooling
Indian Butter Chicken.
