Lightning seldom does strike twice if ever; but it has certainly done all and more what with a motion picture entitled "Madam X" gracing the silver screen a few years back and budding maestro Aashu Patel recently penning as well as releasing a novel by the same name a few weeks back.........
Patel's "Madam X" traces the life and times of Rachna a fiercely ambitious and uncannily independent young girl from a remote and nondescript Indian town who is utterly fed up with her seemingly anonymous existence and wants to make it big on her very own terms no matter what the costs involved......
Rachna starts her journey into notoriety and infame (?????) with a short but wholly unforgettable stint as a police constable but soon learns that her voluptuous and shapely body is her best if only asset and sets to use the same to wend her way to the supposed city of dreams Mumbai where she embarks on a bitter sweet journey towards becoming a famous heroine and carving out a niche of her very own.........
Despite struggling for many a year Rachna finds herself unable to even take the first hesitant and faltering steps towards fulfilling her long held ambition of becoming a heroine and frustratingly finds herself reduced to a glorified extra who has to settle for a musical show in Dubai in order to keep her body and soul together.........
Things soon spiral out of Rachna's iron grip as she firstly meets a businessman who is seemingly smitten by her feline charms and gets married to her in flash while promising her the sun; moon and stars all the while; Rachna soon uncovers her infatuated (?????) husband's sinister truth when she unwittingly stumbles upon the fact that he husband is already married and a father of two teenagers.........
She then proceeds to confront her husband who not only gets rid of her in a manner akin to getting rid of a fly that has made it's way into your cup of coffee but also proceeds to sell off the flat in Mumbai in which Rachna has invested her lifetime's savings.......
Shelter less; penniless and seemingly wiser; Rachna somehow or the other manages to wend her way back to Dubai where she proceeds to befriend a prosperous Arab businessman with inextricable links to the Dubai as well as other mafias; but soon finds herself pining for more as she is claustrophobic about her glorified status as the mafiosis moll and eye candy........
Enter notorious and dreaded Mafia don Raju Vardhan; a knight in shining armour who not only extricates Rachna from the bottomless maze that she finds herself trapped in but also introduces her to the twin drugs of power and notoriety that not only serve to intoxicate Rachna but soon have her hopelessly cast under their heady spell..........
Under Vardhan's tutelage and inspiring guidance Rachna soon finds herself climbing the rungs of the ladder to the very top of the tree and soon ensconces herself as "MADAM X"; femme fatale and the very first female mafia don who is the deadliest of them all..........
Eye catching; rivetting; spellbinding and totally cliche ridden; "Madam X" is a masterly crafted roller coaster that keeps you hooked right from page one to page 259 where Rachna once again eludes the police dragnet laid out for her for the umpteenth time to rise once again like the proverbial phoenix..........
Priced at a rather pocket friendly Rs. 250/- and published worldwide by Shree Book Centre; the same is available a whopping discount of 28% off the cover price if brought from either Flipkart or Amazon.........
All in all; "Madam X" is a wizardly effort of sheer magic that leaves you thirsting for more and your quest for this elusive more might soon find itself ending as the novel is soon going to transform itself into a major Hindi motion picture as the blurb on the cover has it.........
Patel's "Madam X" traces the life and times of Rachna a fiercely ambitious and uncannily independent young girl from a remote and nondescript Indian town who is utterly fed up with her seemingly anonymous existence and wants to make it big on her very own terms no matter what the costs involved......
Rachna starts her journey into notoriety and infame (?????) with a short but wholly unforgettable stint as a police constable but soon learns that her voluptuous and shapely body is her best if only asset and sets to use the same to wend her way to the supposed city of dreams Mumbai where she embarks on a bitter sweet journey towards becoming a famous heroine and carving out a niche of her very own.........
Despite struggling for many a year Rachna finds herself unable to even take the first hesitant and faltering steps towards fulfilling her long held ambition of becoming a heroine and frustratingly finds herself reduced to a glorified extra who has to settle for a musical show in Dubai in order to keep her body and soul together.........
Things soon spiral out of Rachna's iron grip as she firstly meets a businessman who is seemingly smitten by her feline charms and gets married to her in flash while promising her the sun; moon and stars all the while; Rachna soon uncovers her infatuated (?????) husband's sinister truth when she unwittingly stumbles upon the fact that he husband is already married and a father of two teenagers.........
She then proceeds to confront her husband who not only gets rid of her in a manner akin to getting rid of a fly that has made it's way into your cup of coffee but also proceeds to sell off the flat in Mumbai in which Rachna has invested her lifetime's savings.......
Shelter less; penniless and seemingly wiser; Rachna somehow or the other manages to wend her way back to Dubai where she proceeds to befriend a prosperous Arab businessman with inextricable links to the Dubai as well as other mafias; but soon finds herself pining for more as she is claustrophobic about her glorified status as the mafiosis moll and eye candy........
Enter notorious and dreaded Mafia don Raju Vardhan; a knight in shining armour who not only extricates Rachna from the bottomless maze that she finds herself trapped in but also introduces her to the twin drugs of power and notoriety that not only serve to intoxicate Rachna but soon have her hopelessly cast under their heady spell..........
Under Vardhan's tutelage and inspiring guidance Rachna soon finds herself climbing the rungs of the ladder to the very top of the tree and soon ensconces herself as "MADAM X"; femme fatale and the very first female mafia don who is the deadliest of them all..........
Eye catching; rivetting; spellbinding and totally cliche ridden; "Madam X" is a masterly crafted roller coaster that keeps you hooked right from page one to page 259 where Rachna once again eludes the police dragnet laid out for her for the umpteenth time to rise once again like the proverbial phoenix..........
Priced at a rather pocket friendly Rs. 250/- and published worldwide by Shree Book Centre; the same is available a whopping discount of 28% off the cover price if brought from either Flipkart or Amazon.........
All in all; "Madam X" is a wizardly effort of sheer magic that leaves you thirsting for more and your quest for this elusive more might soon find itself ending as the novel is soon going to transform itself into a major Hindi motion picture as the blurb on the cover has it.........
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