It is continued in the second book “The Secret of Nagas” It is Shiva’s insecurities and inner conflicts that actually make the readers believe that he is human instead of his amateurish dialogues.īut the story does not end here with this book although a major phase is completed.
Excessive use of words like ‘damn’, ‘bullshit’, and ‘idiot’ in his dialogues sound plain weird with the other Sanskrit words used all over the novel. The pulp-film-hero treatment of Shiva, probably done keeping in mind the Bollywood crazy Indian audience, just feels inappropriate with the settings. The novel miserably fails in the characterization of the protagonist itself. It seems as if a complicated bollywood love story has been depicted in book. But the filmsy romance between Sati and Shiva is the biggest turn off about the book. Most of the characters are familiar as they are rooted in our mythology. At the same time, his colorful persona makes him mischievous, adding flavour to the book. He is curious, honourable and respectful. The plot of the book follows Shiva as he searches for his destiny and tries to do what seems to be right. He takes Lord Shiva and makes him into a plausible character- one with feelings and faults, with a personality and a mind that constantly reasons with logic and crafts his own Lord Shiva. But that’s exactly what Amish does in the Immortals of Meluha.
It is difficult to do justice to such a phenomenon in a few hundred pages. Shiva stands for stubborn, raw energy, for passion and for strength. Lord Shiva is the most intriguing gods in Hindu mythology but I was not keen to read a book on mythology even if it was a bestseller.
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