The Big 3-Ohh!!
For some women, a number acquires a shape that has nothing to do with its numerical value. So, while 18 has always been a graceful swan emerging from the rather coltish teens, 30 looms ahead, fat and round, yet, shapeless and amorphous. The thought of becoming a thirty year old is not at all exciting for these women. They’d prefer to be 27 all their life. Why? Because 27 feels svelte, slim and sexy.
Meet four young working women who are on the verge of turning thirty this year. Mini – loud, brash and unapologetic is trying to recover from a breakup, and isn’t looking forward to becoming a thirty year old. She wants to become a writer and cannot forget her ex, Akash who she met at creative writing classes a year back.
There’s Namrata – a woman who still lives in a bygone era despite belonging to one of the most urbane cities in India, Bangalore. She lives with her mother, her brother and his wife and has a desperate but quiet crush on Vinay, a hot software engineer in her office.
Then there’s Farida – Her quirky style of dressing is all that she’s inherited from her quirkier parents who died when she was 13, leaving her under the care of a monstrous aunt and her lecherous husband. Farida often feels that the story of her life was written by a drunken scriptwriter who writes very bad Hindi movies. Not without reason of course.
Finally, there’s Priya – Pretty, flirtatious and not known to mind her own business, Priya often likens herself to Jane Austen’s Emma or Alicia Silverstone in Clueless. Her machinations are often disastrous but that doesn’t stop her from meddling in the lives of her friends. And yes, she simply hates the thought of turning thirty.
This story of four technical writers in a software company is set in Bangalore and revolves around their lives and loves, weaving between characters with ease. An easy read, The Big 3-0hh!! nevertheless probes the fear of turning thirty for most women, with the realisation that it really is no big deal.
Publishing details about The Big 3-Ohh!! will be available soon.
