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Behram’s Boat by Adi Pocha – Book Review

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Author: Adi Pocha
Publisher: One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd

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With lots of drama and entertainment, it’s a light refreshing read that you will enjoy. Totally a page-turner.

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Set in early 2000, with a backdrop of Parsi culture and lanes of Mumbai, Adi Pocha weaves a witty story of Behram Rustomjee and his dream of building a traditional boat that will retrace the historic voyage of the Parsis when they first came to India. He gets an idea to save the community of Parsis and the plan is a hilarious one.

With a complete hilarious plot and fun narration, Behram’s Boat is a journey of a man who has lost almost everything and is now determined to make his life worthwhile. Will he be able to fulfil his crazy idea?

Right from the life of Parsis, to the way they help each other, Adi Pocha has shared the back story of how Parsis came to India and their Culture in a very subtle and interesting way.

The author with his witty writing style makes the readers laugh a lot. The story gets more and more exciting as the events take place, adding new and fun characters to the story.

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Many characters in the story have a shorter part, but they leave a huge impact on readers’ minds. One could relate to each of them, and the situations very well. I liked the way the characters were sketched.

With Behram’s adventures, a reader truly laughs a lot and at the same time, it will make them curious about Behram’s dream. Will he be able to fulfil it? Or it’s just gonna be another dream. At times, the story is a bit stretched, but then Behram’s adventures picks up the pace really well.

There’s curiosity, there’s guilt as well here. Yes, the relationship Behram shares with his daughter and how they both feel for each other is wonderfully portrayed.

It’s a light, fun, smooth-paced, story with lots of layers. While it talks about Parsi culture, it also shares about how a dream can actually give new life to a person. The way Behram had hidden his loneliness in alcohol and the way he came out it is beautifully expressed.

Will he be able to build his boat? Find out now. With lots of drama and entertainment, it’s a light refreshing read that you will enjoy. Totally a page-turner.

Summary

“Behram’s Boat” is a funny, whimsical story of one eccentric, cranky old Parsi’s struggle to build a boat that will save his people.

And bring meaning to his life.

Not a modern ship, but a traditional boat of wood and sail, that will retrace the historic voyage of the Parsis when they first came to India. But this time, the other way around: from Sanjan in India all the way to Iran.

Behram’s grand plan involves filling his boat not with refugees, but with young Parsi couples, who he hopes will fall in love during the voyage, and… well, contribute to the growth of their tribe.

In a scheme that is both mad and hopeless, yet strangely heroic and moving, Behram Rustomjee battles all odds: from the challenges of hard labour under a relentless sun, on a black swamp of a beach to threats to his very life from people who say he is building a filthy “Sex Boat”. For a man who has achieved not very much, Behram Rustomjee, for once, is determined to make his life mean something.

But.

Will the world allow him to build and sail his dream?

“An enchanting pen-portrait – at once hilariously funny and painfully poignant – of not just an engagingly eccentric individual – a tragi-comic latter-day Noah – but of an entire community, and a way of life which is fast disappearing.”

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