When his mates were preparing for board exams, he was busy flirting with girls!
When his friend wanted to propose a girl, he hasn't even seen, he was busy thinking how to rob his friend's landlord!
When another friend was searching for a substitute Dad, he was busy kissing his girlfriend in ladies washroom!
Meet Rishi and enter into his world full of fun, flirting with random girls, hanging out with friends and his love-interest Ananya.
If you think LOVE is just another four letter word, think again! As after reading this book, your perception about LOVE is going to change from a mere 'emotion' to 'devotion', because...
Rochak Bhatnagar is the bestselling author of 'Love Happens Only Once'. With a stock of over hundreds of books, he is a voracious reader and loves his collection that includes both fiction and non-fiction.
He has been fond of reading, writing and composing stories since childhood. At present, he is handling engineering and his passion for writing simultaneously because well, you know, a small packet of happiness mostly comes with a bundle of responsibility and a promise of dedication towards the achievement of your goal. Inspired by the events around his environs, his stories seem realistic. At least, that’s what he likes to think.
He resides in Delhi, and loves to pen down his thoughts whenever he gets time.
By Rochak Bhatnagar. Grade: D It is a good thing I am a very optimistic person because even after having so many bad experiences with Indian authors I haven’t lost my faith in them. After reading the interview of Mr. Bhatnagar, I was intrigued. I assumed him to be a sensible and a mature writer, and so I went ahead and picked his book up, Love Happens Only Once and…and I mean no disrespect, but the book just didn’t work for me. When his mates were preparing for board exams, he was busy flirting with girls! When his friend wanted to propose a girl, he hasn’t even seen, he was busy thinking how to rob his friend’s landlord! When another friend was searching for a substitute Dad, he was busy kissing his girlfriend in a ladies washroom! Meet Rishi and enter into his world full of fun, flirting with random girls, hanging out with friends and his love-interest Ananya. If you think LOVE is just another four letter word, think again! As after reading this book, your perception about LOVE is going to change from a mere ‘emotion’ to ‘devotion’, because… Love happens only once…rest is just life.
The story starts with a guy name Rishi giving a speech in the freshers party. It’s his third year in college and out of the blue a perfect stranger approaches him and asks him about his love life. Here’s how it goes: “Sir, Parvitra di told me that you have the most romantic yet painful love story. Is it true? She eve told me that you are the perfect boyfriend any girl could get.” “Oh really? It’s nothing like that yaar. It’s just…” “Please sir, I am all ears. Tell me your story naa…” She encouraged. “No, I don’t really like to discuss this with anyone.” Please sir, please. Only me. Please, please,” she begged. “Okay fine,” I said. “Story started the day I was born…” That’s simply ridiculous! What sort of sane man would discuss something as private as his love story with a complete stranger? Rishi is mean, he is arrogant and doesn’t give a damn about anyone’s feelings. And as simply as he put it, he is a bastard. He is a guy who doesn’t believe in love. The story starts when he is in tenth grade and how he ditches a girl and throws her feelings at her face. He is cursed by his ex that when he’ll fall in love with someone and when that someone won’t reciprocate his feelings then he’ll know how it feels (and they were just in the 10th grade). So a year passes, he is in the eleventh grade and there is this drop dead gorgeous girl in school, and one glance at her, Rishi is smitten. After a brief meeting with her they meet again after three years. They spend most of their time together. Rishi has feelings for her since the day he met her but never managed to say it to her face. Rishi keeps telling her he doesn’t believe in love, that’s just bullshit for him, but then again suddenly out of the blue he asks her to be his valentine! Couldn’t he pull a better line? Of course he had to face a rejection. Then he realizes what has he been doing all these years, but he has learned his reason and so he gets his love interest in the end. “Sir, you have a beautiful story. Why don’t you write a book?” Kritika said, tears dripping down her cheeks. I read the blurb and I had a feeling I won’t like the book. YA is not my favourite genre, but it is not my least favourite either, so I gave it a try. During the first half, I kept thinking that I was reading a teenager’s dairy, full of !!!! and SOMEBODY FORGOT TO TURN THE CAPS LOCK OFF. While the story in itself isn’t too bad, it is painfully obvious that it is being written by an amateur. The characters are badly portrayed, bad tenses, bad language, abrupt scenes, a completely predictably plot and the formation of sentences is very odd. The only thing I liked about it was the cover until I realized the startling similarity it bears to Ravinder Singh’s Can Love Happen Twice? A guy for whom relationships are just a waste of time falls for a girl at first sight? I don’t believe in that. Love is a strong word, a strong emotion. But the first time he sees her, all he wants is to gather her in his arms and tell her he loves her? Sure there is an attraction, a spark, but the first meeting with her changed him entirely as a person? The story could have been developed but the novel(-la) is too short for that. I think Rochak Bhatnagar is a nice writer (and I am concluding this from the interview alone), but this story was not for him. He should take a break, practice and write something better.
Okay I bought this book on a total whim. It had such a cute cover I couldnt resist. Completed in two hours. Later when I saw the Author's name, I couldnt believe it. Rochak Bhatnagar !! He lives in my lane, four or five houses away !! So I think here I am little biased on the rating....otherwise I would have given it 1 star
First thing : This book was totally not for me. It was too cute and immature and simple for me. :P It is the simplest novel I have ever read. The title has almost no relation with the book "Love happens only once" . The guy Rishi fell twice in love. I thought it to be highly emotional. But it was like I was reading but I felt no emotion at all. I just felt like choking myself at the show of such a petty display of love. I mean it was really childish. In the Prologue, the story was described as romantic and painful and Rishi doesnt like to share it with anyone. Man.......if this story is painful then I dont know how other really painful stories would be described as.
Now here is the story.... Rishi, a guy who doesnt believe in love....and certainly not in love at first sight. He is in 10th standard that is will be appearing for his boards exams. In author's point of view Rishi is depicted as totally bastard.....flirting around with girls and breaking their hearts and all(in a totally innocent way). He went to a disc one day with college friends. There he met a beautiful girl Ananya and obviously got attracted. He met her again somewhere accidentally and exchanged numbers and fb id's. Then they started chatting. After 3 years, he wrote a letter to Ananya expressing his feelings and proposing her. Ananya rejected him as he didnt believe in love whereas Ananya was totally lovey dovey types and wanted a stable boyfriend. And then she was gone from his life....changed her number. Then he enrolled for his Btech in GBTU. There, a girl proposed him on phone....said she fell in love with him and wanted to meet him. Ofcourse he refused. Then he met a friend of a friend Pragya and fell in love with her. (How pathetic ! Typical boy :P ) Then after some try he proposed her and Pragya said yes. And then I felt like choking myself whenever Pragya or Rishi's love for Pragya is described. Then his friend's love story is described. Rishi and his friend stole 50,000 from someone and got 25000. He bought gifts for Pragya on her birthday. Then Sumit, his best buddy told him that Pragya is bad for him. He fought with him and stopped talking with him. Later he read some messages on Pragya's cell. Only then he made some inquiries and found that She had a boy-friend and apparently they are again in a relationship. And she's not virgin. After knowing this, he was in tears. :P When he confronted Pragya....you know what she slapped him and broke up with him. And the guy begged her to not to break up with him. Gosh can you believe it!! I hate this part of the story Then he sent her a message "As I feel the tear do down my cheek, I notice that my heart is weak. For the love I have for you, will always be gold and true. I have made some mistakes, they rest in the past, But, my love for you will forever last. Even though we are a distance apart, you always have the key to my heart. Am sorry Pragya. I love you..." He kept crying for dont know how many days !!! And then suddenly he dreamed about Ananya. And she was back in his life. Ananya suddenly realised that it was her mistake that Rishi is suffering now....after reading Rishi's diary. And then Rishi and Ananya were lovey dovey again. (like I have always loved you, I have missed you n blah blah blah). Well and this was the ending.
But the book held my interest...for that I gave it 3 stars.
When his mates were preparing for board exams, he was busy flirting with girls!
When his friend wanted to propose a girl, he hasn't even seen, he was busy thinking how to rob his friend's landlord!
When another friend was searching for a substitute Dad, he was busy kissing his girlfriend in ladies washroom!
Meet Rishi and enter into his world full of fun, flirting with random girls, hanging out with friends and his love-interest Ananya.
If you think LOVE is just another four letter word, think again! As after reading this book, your perception about LOVE is going to change from a mere 'emotion' to 'devotion', because...
None of my friends and ME too liked the book ! A poor story-line! It doesnt become a love story book, if u jus write abt Hanging out in a cafe, and going to a disco and describing as TWINKLING LIKE STARS abt ur lover..!
Its very dull and the plot is hugely predictable with a bad and sudden ending.Nothing is worth in the book, the narration, the language , dialogues (other than describing love) or the character sketch all are weak and half boiled.A bad attempt.
This book is not worth of one star I just give it 1/2 star The book is completely over praised rishi in whole book .. and stroy don't just run but jump and it's too fast to built interest in it ..
My rating for the depth of this 'novella' will be 1/10 of a star. I think it's becoming pervasive now a days of Indian Engineers to delve into literature and somehow find meaning in their lives with their cheep and cheesy books and a childish outlook at world of love, desire, metaphilosohy and relationships. Just because this writer lives delusionally in his privileged life with some fundamentally untruths about reality and workings of world, he thinks of himself as a pedant with an enlightened mind similar to Our dead Chetan Bhagat. I would kick this person in the center of love if he repeats his pedantic views in last few pages to me. If someone knows him, please do it for me and ask this nincompoop to read some better philosophy and not delve into writing a book meant for mass (typical average person with idealistic views of love defined in cheesy language and pretending to be subordinate to a master (woman) who wants to be treated as king). Ask him if he knows any difference between fantasy and reality. I gave it 1/10 because I recognized my life event when I was rejected by whatever and otherwise I would have given it 0.00000000 (I know it's 0 only, hahah).
Bought it in valentine week to feel the love and romance through words but was disappointed. The plot was literally dead.It is only one time read book.
Its true that "Love Happens Only Once, Rest is Just Life". But there must be a well defined description for that Love. isn't? I do not see that appropriate description in this book. By seeing the title and 5 star ratings from many readers, I had a reasonable expectation on this book. But this guy, Rochak Bhatnagar has disappointed me totally with his crap.
I could say the title is worth while comparing to its content. It is just starting with a tiresome intros. The author is simply boasting about his hero without logic. Hero(named Rishi) is hosting a c-programming competition and he himself won the first prize. What is the logic in this? There are many unwanted scenes for Rishi to describe him.
At first Rishi is just roaming as a playboy in his school. He doesn't know what is true love and suddenly he fell for a girl(Ananya) and proposed her. Once she reject him, he started feeling for her. In this point there must be some strong scene to depict his love towards her. But there is no such plots in this book. And once again he is giving his love to some other girl(Pragya) to heal his pain given by Ananya. He is just giving the same love to two girls. Then what is called true love? In this way, the title itself fails to match with its content.
After all, Rishi has a cool and nice friends around them. Author is portraying them as a best friends for Rishi. But he failed to add appropriate sequences to show them as best friends.
Overall narration is poor. But I just accepted since it is his debut novel. I don't know how these story writers are simply publishing a book with the same style of love story. At some places the phrases which he used were making us irritated. My overall rating is 1.5/5. "Don't go for a book by simply with its title and cover"
This is one of the books I would recommend staying away from...and I gave it a two just because I considered the author's age and respect him for sitting together to write a book (because I know that's a tough part!)
Otherwise this story has nothing new to offer...in fact even the plain old routine love story that Indian authors tend to write is missing in here...there are no parts one would relate to or things that might touch you...and I had ordered its sequel when I bought this as these had pretty good rating on Flipkart and even GoodReads...lesson learnt, never buy book two without reading book one...
But I will still read it, now that it has been bought, for I want to see how come a novel without any story have a story for its prequel :P
The book has uch a cute cover I couldnt resist. "Love happens only once" . The guy Rishi fell twice in love. When his mates were preparing for board exams, he was busy flirting with girls! When his friend wanted to propose a girl, he hasn't even seen, he was busy thinking how to rob his friend's landlord! When another friend was searching for a substitute Dad, he was busy kissing his girlfriend in ladies washroom! A nice love story. Its not too complicated. It talks about love, breakups, fights, arguments and how to overcome ur emotions and anger when u r left alone to deal with a problem. Can be read once. His other novel "One Life One Love" was better than this one.
Honestly, the cover was what got my eye. Look at it... so beautiful. (at least for me) It is basically a story about school's notorious boy who fall in love with a newbie girl, sweet and innocent. When he proposed her, she was already aware of his playful attitude. So she right handedly just rejected him. Than the story continues after some years, he is now in an engineering college met a new girl fall in love with her.. But, she cheated him with her ex. And at the end somehow he was united with his first love. I completed it pretty soon. A far good read for some easy read.
A nice love story. Its not too complicated. It talks about love, breakups, fights, arguments and how to overcome ur emotions and anger when u r left alone to deal with a problem.
It is very simple. Flow is smooth and nothing too extra ordinary. It might be pretty regular and common type of love stories for many people.
But efforts of the author have to be appreciated. :)
A lil bit of more spice would have made it more interesting.
quite engrossing.. read all at once but the story had some loopholes.. rishi fell in love twice with the same intensity that doesn't justify the title of the book.
ordinary story,completed in 3 hours, gave 2 stars bcoz in this book in epilogue rochak mentioned abt his anniversary n coincidently today's My anniversary too :) otherwise I would hv given 1 star.