Grandmaster (Hindi)

Thrillers #54

by सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक

पत्नी का दावा था कि उसका पति सदानन्द पुणेकर एक इज्जतदार बिजनेसमैन था जो अपनी स्थापित रूटीन के मुताबिक सुबह सवेरे फिशिंग पर निकला था लेकिन शाम तक नहीं लौटा था । पुलिस का दावा था कि वो बिजनेसमैन था लेकिन इज्जतदार नहीं था । वो माफिया था, अंडरवर्ल्ड डॉन था । एक सौन्दर्य की देवी की आसमान छूती महत्वाकांक्षाओं की दहशतनाक दास्तान जो एक ऐसे शख्स से मुकाबिल थी जो घातप्रतिघात के खेल का शातिर खिलाड़ी था : जो ग्रैंडमास्टर था ।

348 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2007

About the author

Surender Mohan Pathak, is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with 314 books to his credit. His major characters are Crime reporter Sunil (unprecedented 123 Titles), Vimal (46 Titles) and Philosopher Detective Sudhir (23 titles). Apart from series, he has written 60+ Novels in thriller category.

Reviews

[Rajan · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Grandmaster" is second and final part of "Makadjaal" the thriller.

Part 1 was very good. There are only four characters
Punekar the Don who is aged and has a young sexy wife. His young wife is a sex and money maniac. She married for money.
Kothari a shady lawyer who handles only one client, Punekar.
Doctor Singla who is Punekar’s wife’s lover.
Dr Singla agrees to kill Punekar on his wife’s insistence. The story is good and the end is a cliffhanger.

Part 2 starts from where part 1 ended and the story goes haywire from there. The second part was unnecessary and it has no rhyme or reason. There are so many plot holes and that even potboiler tag can’t help it. It was even worse than the normal lugdi novels of other novels. There are so many twists the story lost relevance and the most irritating part was the lawyer of wife. Police detectives and the lawyer were like fortune tellers and can see in future and past. They deducted everything and started the investigation without any corpse. In many of his previous novels Pathak himself said that there can not be any case without the corpse. They have no reason to investigate the case as murder immediately. Still they did. There are so many inconsistencies and in the end, it was very boring. Huge letdown.

[Karan · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a story. Ravishing character of Namita. Loved her plays in this book. Couldn’t stopped reading so exciting.