Dec 21, Sruthi rated it liked it Shelves: chick-lits , desi-romantic. My favourite Thakur girls come back with a sequel. So this one is some 20 years after Dylan-Dabbu marriage.
Frankley speaking , I enjoyed The Pricey Thakur Girls much more , I think the characters were lovable back then and also I will give full marks for romance. This one is more petite , Ppl with evil masks , The awful property fights. I don't know whether I like Bonu or not , really , she wants revenge for her parent's death.
She keeps playing the old dialogue of her mother in her mind My favourite Thakur girls come back with a sequel. She keeps playing the old dialogue of her mother in her mind , at some point she sounded like Chandu chanting. Jeez , I never never liked Chandu , she was tolerable in the first book coz she was absent. But all these characters got realistic touches I guess , not sugar-coated. So I gotto appreciate author there.
Samar , Gosh , who would have imagined him growing into hot-shot director saab? Haaye , I fell for him. He is the only good thing about Bonu-Samar love story. I craved for a glimpse of Dylan-Dabbu , you know after all they are the main characters in the first book.
Anyways I am thankful at least we gotto read them , albeit separately. Keeping characterisation aside , the plot was pretty good , I mean you just cannot put the book aside. Some scenes are so hilarious , I had to close my book and laughed for some rolling on the floor 'literally' , of course its Anuja Chauhan , you don't expect nothing less.
Oh that Tring Trings -Khan -Public humiliation scene on stage is my favourite Definitely not recommended for people who wanna keep a straight face , this is a leisure read , Very long one at that.
Aug 06, Locomente rated it it was amazing. As promised, the story is all about the house that BJ built and if those pricey Thakur girls sell the house or not. In spite of pages, Anuja Chauhan startles the reader with several twists and turns.
The narrative is lucid and incidents are quirky. Dialogs are relatable and characters have shades of grey — neither godly nor villainous. There is a splendid Bollywood movie-like charm about the book. It lets the reader envision not only the backdrop but the characters as well. What I loved abou As promised, the story is all about the house that BJ built and if those pricey Thakur girls sell the house or not.
What I loved about the story is the sheer madness. It is everything a big fat Indian family would be. It also reemphasizes that blood is indeed thicker than water and at the end of the day, family matters!
The hot and sizzling chemistry between Bonu and Samar is delicious. It would surely make you wish that you were Bonu only if you are a woman reader, of course. In short, Anuja Chauhan is back with another blockbuster book.
Aug 23, Neha rated it liked it Shelves: own , chicklit , g-asia-india , ind-delhi , read She has already written three page each chiclits featuring romantic nauk jhonk between Delhi ki jhalli ladki and Mumbai ka Hottie ladka. With this I have actually summarized the story and the authors prowess in writing, rest of the plot and characters, who cares.
So why is it that I pick up this book again. Frankly it's a no brainier, it's light, it's funny, it's smart and it's easy. We all wan donebefore chiclit hashtaggenre It is easy to write off saying Anuja Chauhan has done this before. We all want such a read all the time. To put it in bookish sense, it's Indian version of Mills and Boons, in a nice family sort of way.
It's a soap opera dished in Delhi humor, family drama and cheeky lines. There is a plot but how does that matter when you already know that boy and girl will eventually live happily ever after. Sep 12, Manpreet Kaur rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. This book is amazing. This is the first book by author that I am reading and I seriously didn't have that much expectations from this book.
But this book turned out to be wow. The book is about Bonu Singh and the tale of selling the house that BJ built. There are four aunts who are all very interesting personalities and who definitely want to sell the house quickly. There is a handsome bachelor and then there are a lot of funny lovable characters. This book is so good because of the characters. Ea This book is amazing.
Each character, whether good or bad, would tickle you and at the same time impress you. Talk about narration LOL This book has humor and it has the kind of humor where the author doesn't try to make you laugh. But with what she writes, you just laugh. I bet you would want to talk about this book once you finish it, you would miss it once you finish it, you would be satisfied but still unsatisfied once you finish it Must read. May 10, Preethi Venugopala rated it it was amazing. It was a wonderful read.
Anuja Chauhan didn't disappoint. This was another humorous rom-com filled with drama and many laugh-out-loud moments. Some of the dialogues are effortlessly hilarious. Drama kings and queens reign in the book. I found myself rooting for some of the characters that I did not like in 'Those Pricey Thakur girls' like Anjini. I was suspicious of the B and N Trings but liked the way it all turned out. Bonu Singh and Samar is well etched. Recommended to all those who love a rom It was a wonderful read.
Recommended to all those who love a rom-com and those who won't mind reading some clever Hinglish in between. May 19, Pratibha Pandey rated it really liked it Shelves: indian-fiction. Bonu and Samar make an awesome pair , no matter how much hot headed both act.
May 13, Sangharsha rated it it was ok Shelves: my-library. Ahh well. I had expected it to be a different kind of work altogether. Turned out to be a shallow, bollywoody thing. I thought twice to drop it in the middle, but then, this is like a bowlful of chocolate cookies or titaura for that matter which you know you shouldn't continue consuming, but you end up with an empty bowl.
Nothing serious. I liked Bonu, btw. May 26, Aishwarya rated it really liked it Shelves: giggled-through , indian-authors. It's not as endearing as Those Pricey Thakur Girls but it's still a lot of fun and totally worth a read.
It's amazing how Anuja Chauhan can reduce me to tears one paragraph and then make me giggle in the next. Waited a month for the book to launch, and it's over in a day.
Jul 08, Snehal Dalvi rated it really liked it Shelves: favorites , re-read , e-books , book-series. I am completely in love with Anuja Chauhan's writing style.
Feb 19, Sachin Garg rated it it was amazing. Is there an Anuja Chauhan fan club I can join? May 01, Lasya Pindi rated it really liked it. It is quite enjoyable that I couldn't put it aside even for a while. It's full of foxy and money-minded people with exciting and stunning twists, which add to the beauty of the story.
I love all characters of the story, not like that I admire them, but I do love them because every character contribute something to the story, with one character lost if no The book "The House That BJ Built", being the sequel of "Those Pricey Thakur Girls", is an entirely modern story compared to the earlier one.
I love all characters of the story, not like that I admire them, but I do love them because every character contribute something to the story, with one character lost if not a part of the story , the story loses it's integrity An awesome read.
All about property's Hissa It contains a lot of Hinglish.. Aur face pe so much dryness and dark spots and blackheads! Meri maano, aap straightaway laser karwalo! We have a good offer—two full legs ke saath, In the beginning, I thought I may not be able to survive this book. But after first chapters, the story took shape with many twists and turns following, it was really un-putdownable if there is such a word. I do wonder if there are really any such kind of people, but they can exist in a Bollywood, or Ekta Kapoor's TV Serials.
Overall a thoroughly enjoyable book, by anyone who likes Indian Fiction. Jan 17, Pooja Kumar rated it really liked it. Breezy, funny, feel good! There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one ».
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This is the second in the much-awaited Thakur Girls trilogy, and this time Anuja Chauhan fixes her stern gaze on Delhi's pet obsession with property, moving on from the newsy s of Those Pricey Thakur Girls. Slyly and steadily, she lifts the curtain to reveal a Delhi centred on cutting up stretches of land to ensure fistful of hissas for everyone, zealously aided by sunglass-clad construction sharks and hair-flicking lawyers. For the most part, discussion is driven by property - rates, feasibility et al.
And while, like the religious Thakur sister Chandu, everyone seems to be shaking their heads over obscene property rates because "money is mael", privately, when the rates run into hundreds of crores, there is nothing that will come in their way of getting some. Like the ageing Ashoka Narayan Thakur, the wily whore-loving, booze-guzzling younger brother of Laxmi Narayan Thakur, who will defame his own mother if need be just so that he can grab some land from his brother's hissa next door.
Laxmi Narayan Thakur, or BJ as they fondly call him, is old and somewhat senile. Mamataji is long gone, and the Thakur girls are all living in different parts of the world; Allahabad, Mumbai, New York. He lives with Bonu Singh, the orphaned daughter of his second-born Binodini, who died in an accident along with her husband and son Monu, while travelling to Delhi to beseech her father to fund another of her husband's businesses after one of the failed ventures.
BJ knows his days are numbered, and wants to leave without having the girls to fuss over the property. As the girls gather after his passing and are offered a delicious deal from Steesh, the youngest Thakur girl, New Yorker Eshwari's once-wronged Hailey Road lover, they are drawn into a somewhat tragi-comic tussle over the property.
One of their hurdles is Bonu herself, now an 'entrepreneur' who runs an illegal 'manufacturing unit' of knock-offs of designer outfits from the house, selling them for a tenth of the real deal.
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