Cyrus Broacha...one of the top 10 funniest guys of India - wait a minute - are there really even 10 funny guys in India? I mean, really funny? So - for me - he is the funny guy of India! Reason enough to try this book...And trust me - it is funny. Crappy, but fun crappy. Its like the way he talks, all shit and all crap and just nonsense, but funny!
The plot - if you would call it so - is thin air material - its about two friends - their life from birth to becoming actors to finally politics! You see the point Cyrus is making - think India - and what comes to your mind? Bollywood and politics (and cricket too, off course...sorry, to the cricket fanatic reading this!). And the book uses these two arenas as nonsensically as they are in real life.
Here is an excerpt to give you an idea of the shit lying ahead -
In many ways, Karl and Kunal were like most boys their age. They shared a passion for the four things schoolboys seem to love most: bunking class, films, food and pornography. And growing up in 1980s India when people went to the movies only to watch Amitabh Bachchan they must have been among Amitabh's biggest fans. That Amitabh was the King of the silver screen was a plain fact, just as night followed day, and Marlon Brando once weighed less than 400 pounds.
The two boys were entranced by a film called Amar Akbar Anthony in which Amitabh played a heroic vagabond, Anthony. It was at about this time that Karl discovered his passion for theatre. The noblest of reasons drew him to the stage: the need to perform and express himself but chiefly, the desire to bunk class. It was well known that anyone who was chosen for the school play would get to bunk the last two periods of the day, which were used for rehearsal.
Read this book, if you of the kind who have enjoyed hearing cyrus shit on TV. Read this if you of the kind who cracks shit jokes in class and laughs harder at other's shitty jokes. Read this if you believe, that the jokes are still not shittier enough! Read it, come on - if you shit, sorry, if you wish!
