Title: Revolution 2020
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Genre: Novel
Written: 2011
Length: 296 pages
Themes : Love. Corruption. Ambition
Revolution 2020 is bookended with a Prologue and an Epilogue in which Chetan Bhagat speaks with Gopal Mishra, "the young director of GangaTech College" -- a typical set-up for a Bhagat novel, framing the main story itself, Gopal's story. Sub-titled Love. Corruption. Ambition, it revolves around a trio of friends from Varanasi (formerly Benares): Gopal, Aarti, and Raghav, and the story gets going as they finish high school and Gopal and Raghav's futures are determined by how they did in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) and the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). The novel was published in 2011; in the meantime, the AIEEE has been completely replaced by the JEE. Getting high marks on the exam is the only path to the elite universities of India -- especially the Indian Institutes of Technology -- the first and most important step to a promising career path.
1) If you were to adapt this novel for the screen, what sort of changes would you make in the story and characters to make it better than the novel?
➡️If I adapt this novel as a screen, I would like to edit Gopal's characterm Because in the last of Gopal's character novels, Chetan Bhagat has tried to portray him as a good person. I will turn him into a bad character based on all the mistakes he has made. And I want him to talk in a way that makes him understand his mistakes. She left Aarti for her own selfishness, that Aarti when she realizes her truth that I am not a good person. Even after she marries me, she will leave me. Before that, let me leave her and get her married to Raghav. So inside this scene I want to change that Aarti's marriage is not with Raghav but with Gopal. Then Aarti finds out all the truth about Gopal. Separating from her, she marries Raghav again. And Gopal understands all his mistakes that all this happened because of my mistake.
2) 'For a feminist reader, Aarti is a sheer disappointing character.' Do you agree with this statement? If yes, what sort of characteristics would you like to see in Aarti? If you disagree with this statement, why? What is it in Aarti that you are satisfied with this character?
➡️We see a lot of literature showing women being weaker than men. In which the position of woman is shown to be inferior to that of man. So in this novel of Chetan Bhagat, the female character Aarti is also shown a lower type of character than the male in that position. With which I agree. And if I express my thoughts here, for example, Aarti is a hopeless character. He comes from a good family whose family is involved in politics, they are very rich. But she cannot make her own decisions. It wants to be an Air Force but fails. So she works as a woman working in a hotel. That is, his thinking is not of the highest kind. Men have a higher level of thinking, they have a mindset till they become a class one officer. Aarti is not firm in his mind. When he goes to study in a cota factory, he meets Raghav as an intelligent man, she is attracted to him and falls in love with him. When Gopal on the other hand becomes a rich man, Aarti is attracted to Gopal and falls in love with him and is ready to marry him. When Gopal refuses to marry her, she marries Raghav. That is, Aarti is portrayed as a puppet throughout the novel. That is, the way men make decisions, the way women behave.
3)'For a true revolutionist, the novel is terribly disappointing.' Do you agree? If yes, what sort of changes would you make in character or situation to make it a perfect revolutionary novel? If you disagree, what is in the novel that you are satisfied with?
➡️The novel portrays Gopal as a corrupt man while Raghav is portrayed as a revolutionary. Gopal shows the corruption that is going on in the present times. While Raghav is portrayed as a revolutionary who has a lot of sorrows and failures in his path. And that character focuses more on revolution than love, so I totally agree that the novel is terribly frustrating for a true revolutionary. Everyone will follow the thing that is easy. Just like Gopal can easily get everything in his life, so people will follow Gopal. But Raghav has been portrayed as a true revolutionary. No one will follow him, because he has had a lot of problems in his life, which he has gone through and he has suffered a lot. He has also failed in many places in his life. If you follow Raghav, you will get failure just like Raghav. But I see Raghav here as a revolutionary. He can bring change in the society and as a result he will get a high position in the society. That will be the end of my story.
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