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Half girlfriend book cover5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The film is peppered with absurdities of the kind that would make you want to slash your wrist. The redeeming factors of Half Girlfriend, and there aren't many, are Seema Biswas (who plays Madhav's mother) and Vikrant Massey (always the dependable friend). All English is correct here.Īll of these, however, lose their way and land in Madhav's journey to find his half-girlfriend. ![]() So when Madhav recites to her 'We needing', 'we wanting' and what not, and you see Riya nodding - this Steven's alumna whose life is spent breathing in English - you realise that this is the Chetanverse. One of the important sequences in the film is Riya helping Madhav to deliver a speech for Bill Gates, in English. There's a reference to the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign too. While writing Half Girlfriend, Chetan Bhagat might have known that it would eventually be developed into a Bollywood film, hence there are half-speeches on patriotism and loving your own language, 'Hindi', thrown in into the story. ![]()
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