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Those Pricey Thakur Girls
by Anuja Chauhan
Description:
In a sprawling bungalow on New Delhi’s posh Hailey Road, Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife Mamta spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters. Anjini, married but an incorrigible flirt; Binodini, very worried about her children’s hissa in the family property; Chandrakanta, who eloped with a foreigner on the eve of her wedding; Eshwari, who is just a little too popular at Modern School, Barakhamba Road; and the Judge’s favourite (though fathers shouldn’t have favourites): the quietly fiery Debjani, champion of all the stray animals on Hailey Road, who reads the English news on DD and clashes constantly with crusading journalist Dylan Singh Shekhawat, he of shining professional credentials but tarnished personal reputation, crushingly dismissive of her state-sponsored propaganda, but always seeking her out with half-sarcastic, half-intrigued dark eyes. Spot-on funny and toe-curlingly sexy, Those Pricey Thakur Girls is rom-com specialist Anuja Chauhan writing at her sparkling best.
About The Author
Anuja Chauhan (born 1970) is an Indian author and advertiser, often described as ‘the best writer of the Indian commercial fiction genre.’ She worked in the advertising agency, JWT India, for over 17 years, eventually becoming vice-president and executive creative director, before resigning in 2010 to pursue a full-time literary career. Over the years she worked with brands like Pepsi, Kurkure, Mountain Dew and Nokia, creating Pepsi’s “Nothing official about it” campaign and advertising slogans such as Pepsi’s “Yeh Dil Maange More” and “Oye Bubbly”She started working on her first novel in 2006, writing during her spare time. Having worked on the Pepsi brand for 13 years, closely associated with cricket advertising, led to cricket becoming the setting of her novel, “The Zoya Factor”, about a girl Zoya Singh Solanki, a client service representative with an advertising agency, who becomes the lucky mascot of the Indian cricket team. At the time of its release, The Zoya Factor ran the danger of being dismissed as ‘Mills and Boon-ish’ but most reviewers were quick to praise the depth of the author’s characters, her wicked descriptions and the authenticity of her Hinglish laced dialogue.
She has been hailed as the best chick lit writer in India, but has repeatedly stated that “Chicks are small, brainless, powerless creatures, bred to be eaten. I’m not a chick and I don’t write for chicks.” The Zoya Factor has won Cosmopolitan Magazine, India’s Fun Fearless Female award for literature (2008) and the India Today Woman award for Woman as Storyteller (2009) It was longlisted for the India Plaza Golden Quill (2009). The novel was optioned for a film by Shah Rukh Khans Red Chillies Entertainment production company. The option was for three years.Subsequently, the rights were purchased by Pooja Shetty Deora’s Walkwater Films.
Her much anticipated book, Battle For Bittora, about 25-year-old Jinni living in Mumbai and working for an animation studio and what happens when she comes back to her hometown, Bittora, at the call of her grandmother, was released in 2010 by actor Saif Ali Khan in Delhi in October 2010, to unanimous critical approval from India Today, Outlook, The Week and Tehelka magazines.
Skryf Review
Those Pricey Thakur Girls is a fine story written by Anuja Chauhan, which was later shown as serial called DilliWali Thakur Gurl .The book is set in 1988 and revolves around the Thakur family, which includes a judge, his wife and their five daughters who are named alphabetically – Anjini, Binodini, Chandrakanta, Debjani and Eshwari. They live in the heart of Delhi and the film is mainly about Debjani, who lands a job as a newsreader with the state news channel DeshDarpan and falls in love with a very desirable, rakish and driven investigative journalist Dylan Singh Shekhawat – who works at India Post (an ill-disguised Indian Express). This story is not just about the Romance between Debjani and Dylan but also about the anti-Sikh riots, scams, the perils of reporting against the government, for working at the state media mouthpiece, the emergence and independence of video news magazine Newstrack (called Viewstrack in the book) and the introduction of the anti-defamation bill.