Like any other book, “The Girl in Room 105” title also contains a number likes ‘2 States’, ‘Five Points Someone’, ‘Revolution 2020’ etc. Having a number in the title has become the trademarked style for Bhagat. The book also has a lot of comedies for laugh and witty one-liners that you will enjoy. However, something is different in the book. The book cover is not cartoonish like Bhagat’s other books. There is a photo of a real girl in the cover. The first impression from the cover is clear. This is also a romance book but with elements of mystery and tragic. There is no happy ending in the book this time.

1. Critically appreciate
Chetan Bhagat’s The
Girl in Room 105
Prepared & Presented by Students: Sejal Vaghani, Janki Dave
RMD Commerce & Arts Mahila College

2. Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is the Author of eight bestselling
novels. The New York Times has called him “The
Biggest Selling Author in India’s History.”
Chetan Bhagat is the author of blockbuster novels
– Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the
Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes Of My Life
(2008) , 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011)
and Half Girlfriend (2014), One Indian Girl
(2016). All seven books have remained bestsellers
since their release. He now brings you his latest
novel, The Girl In Room 105, he described it as
‘an unlove story’ – is it that only or many more
facts about the story….let’s unfold it one by one.
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3. What exactly Mr. Bhagat wants to say by this?
“To those who never give up
&
To those who like me, find it hard to unlove?”
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4. At a first glance…
◈ Like any other book, “The Girl in Room 105” title also contains a
number likes ‘2 States’, ‘Five Points Someone’, ‘Revolution 2020’ etc.
Having a number in the title has become the trademarked style for
Bhagat. The book also has a lot of comedies for laugh and witty one-
liners that you will enjoy.
◈ However, something is different in the book. The book cover is not
cartoonish like Bhagat’s other books. There is a photo of a real girl in the
cover. The first impression from the cover is clear. This is also a
romance book but with elements of mystery and tragic. There is no
happy ending in the book this time.
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5. Title: “The Girl in Room 105
• Mystery of girl & mystery of
room 105
• What does the subtitle
suggests ‘an unlove story’??
• Is it a distorted love story?
• What does Chetan Bhagat
use to say by the title of the
book?
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6. “Whatever is happening in India today will often be found in
my stories. I felt that many stories had come about Kashmir,
but almost all of them directly went into the militancy aspect
of the state. There’s more to Kashmir, and keeping it as a
backdrop of an investigation increased the tension (of the
story). The hero’s father being in the RSS and his girlfriend
being a Kashmiri Muslim also lends an interesting conflict to
the story, and I had a chance to show the prejudices we live
with, in India today.
- Chetan Bhagat 6

7. Let’s talk about the storyline
◈ Keshav Rajpurohit is an IIT pass out who, much to the chagrin of his proud family
members, is teaching in a JEE coaching centre in Delhi. He is still in love with his ex-
girlfriend, the beautiful Kashmiri Muslim, Zara – who broke up with him 4 years ago. Ever
since then Keshav has been pining for her love despite every practical advice against it.
◈ What seems like an ordinary unsuccessful love story, turns into something different
altogether when one day, on the eve of her birthday, Zara messages Keshav out of the blue.
Drunk, and already in half his wits, he readily agrees to meet her by sneaking into her hostel
room (room no 105) in the dead of the night, just like he used to do years ago when they
were still dating.
◈ This one mistake changes his life forever. Unknowingly he does what he should never have
done. Now, he is caught in a whirlwind of events and it doesn’t seem that there is a way out.
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8. Themes
◈ Love: Unlove, Distorted love, Tragic love
◈ Communal riots
◈ Caste system
◈ Politics
◈ Murder mystery
◈ Digitalization
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9. Symbolism
◈ Room 105
◈ WhatsApp DP
◈ Pictures of Zara and her brother
◈ White Rose (favorite thing to unhappy thing)
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10. Characters
◈ Keshav Rajpurohit
◈ Saurabh (Golu)
◈ Zara Lone
◈ Chandan sir
◈ Inspector Rana
◈ Laxman
◈ Nizam
◈ Raghu Venkatesh
◈ Captain Faiz Khan
◈ Sikander
◈ Professor Saxena
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11. Literary Analyze the story
◈ It once so happens, that Keshav bumps into Chetan Bhagat on a flight
where he starts narrating the story of his girlfriend Zara to him. Zara is
the second main character of this novel.
◈ The main character, Keshav and his girlfriend is from Kashmir, Zara
Lone
◈ Consequences in love
◈ Another turn, what happened at the birthday (Zara Lone’s birthday)
night?
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12. Literary Analyze the story
◈ Protagonist Keshav does mention the word ‘Únlove’ towards the end of
the novel.
◈ Before the murder mystery is solved. The author takes you through all
the suspects that includes Zara’s father; Zara’s cousin, Sikander;
Professor Saxsena, Zara’s PhD guide; Captain Faiz Khan, Zara’s
childhood friend and even Raghu.
◈ Suspense revelation at the end, It has angles of honour killing.
◈ A terrorist job, jealousy and even a straightforward accident.
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13. The Concept of terrorism in this book
• What distinguishes ‘The Girl in Room 105″ from other Chetan
Bhagat book is that the story in addition to his usual quintessential
Bhagatian stuff has also a powerful socio-political message. It has
messages for readers about Kashmiri and Terrorism. We
applaud Bhagat for this. Considering his large fan base, the
message will surely strike a chord with his readers.
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• Recent example of terrorism, Pulwama attack.

14. Place your screenshot here
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Critical acclaimed facts…
o After reading this book you
will face a little different
taste of Chetan’s writing.
o with love element he
expanded his writing with
terror issues, which is a
new thing.
o You can complete this
book with a single siting as
it musing us with the
concept, what is going to
happen next?

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