As Life has No Undo by Abir Mukherjee.

• Book: As Life has no Undo.
• Author: Abir Mukherjee.
• Publication House: Blackbuck Publication.
• Category: Fiction.
• Rating: 3/5.

 

Story-in-Short:

Campus interviews are around the corner for the final-year students of Burdwan

Ankit, a simple boy and mediocre student from a lower middle class Bengali family has only two aims in his life to become a computer engineer per his parent's wish and to spend his entire life with Shreeja, the lady love of his life. Shreeja is pretty, ambitious and career oriented. What happens when Debdeep walks into their lives?

Does Ankit have more things to lose than he ever imagined? Have you ever loved someone more than yourself? Have you ever felt the need of a undo button in your life?

This may be your story…

Engineering College. Everyone is busy honing their skills at the last minute except Ankit who wishes to see his parents for the last time.

In my view:

What if we could erase some terrible memories and incidents of life? What if our life had an option of Ctrl+Z? What if we could go back in our past and undo certain things to have a pleasant future? Well, all these things are matter of imagination and do not exist for living beings. 

Yet, when things go wrong in life, we often think of what if we had such an option. But for humans, past is past and present is present. Happenstances of life can never be rectified or modified. All that we can do is, label them as ‘bad memories’ and forget them. After all, life has no Undo. 

Here, I am done reading a novel with an interesting and agreeable title – As Life has no undo by Abir Mukherjee. 

The book begins with the protagonist’s roomie committing suicide for a reason. It is at this point that the protagonist narrates his own story in front of his roomie. A bet is placed between Ankit (the protagonist) and his friend Sagar, related to this charming girl Shreeja. While preventing to lose the bet, Ankit gets in touch with her. After conversing a bit they both befriend and Ankit soon discovers feelings for Shreeja.

They start spending time together. 

On a one hand their relation prospers but on another hand they don’t devout time for their studies as a result of which their marks deteriorate. This story is much like an ordinary love story. The concept too is quite similar yet the book entertains a reader, though not up to that great extent. 

Over-all: As I unwrapped the book from the courier package, my first glance, obviously, fell on its simple cover page. A white background, horizontal lines and some drawings on it, makes the cover look like some notebook page. Well, more emphasis should have been laid on the cover. The title of the story is really, really interesting. Narration of the story is perfectly fine and the storylines are comprehensible. 

Yet, the story fails to deliver something new, something different to the readers. The author had a wide scope to make the story stimulating at certain places where it tends to become dull. Also, in the later part, the story begins to feel slightly exaggerated. Still, the story successfully provokes a thought among readers which is really good! 

Considering everything, I would rate the book with 3/5. Congratulations to Abir for his debut novel and hope he comes up with many more stories! 

NOTE: A review copy of the book was provided by the author. 

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