OK Now, Who's my Santa - An Awesomatic Hilariously Entertaining and Emotional Read

The first page of the first novel written by Vaishnavi Nair Kolli started off with the rantings of the ever effervescent Annika Pillai to none other than our beloved Saint Nicholas a.k.a Santa Claus or simply Santa! It set the tone and the stage perfectly for the plot to take its own time to unravel itself with the continuous back and forth responses from every character either through mails or by chats. The writing style is fresh ,original and different with heavy doses of slapstick and wit spread intelligently from the beginning till the very end.

The story is crisp and neat. There were instances when the narration could have become melodramatic or effusively sentimental. But, Vaishnavi showed her adroitness by reigning in the ropes tightly thus ensuring that the emotional quotient of the narration did not cross the border line and become sugary or mawkish. Likewise, the story has also its own suspense that is woven into the very fabric of the novel - Who's my Santa? At first glance, you think that you have decoded who might be the Santa. But, certain distractions peppered in very cleverly by Vaishnavi in the quintessential Agatha Christie-esque style ensured that the cat wasn't out of the bag until the climax.

If you are not an emotional type, then you can proceed to the next paragraph unless curiosity wants and makes you to read the current paragraph completely. But, if you are an emotional person, then kindly have a hand-kerchief with you so that you don't drench and wet the pages with your tears. I belonged to the latter and I did not have a hand kerchief! 

ONWMS is a picture-perfect Blockbuster Bollywood material. To bring in the element of subjectivity to the fore now, as I was reading the novel, only SRK as Abhay and Kajol as Annika were gently streaming in, strolling and dancing into my mind. Yeah. I am a big time DDLJ fan with subtitles. So, they were my natural choice to don the hero and heroine for this script.

Quirky. Off-beat. Wacky. Insanely funny and Highly Emotive. Humorously suspenseful and delightfully breezy. It's really hard to believe that Ok Now, Who's my Santa is written by a first-timer as it seemed more like a novel written by a seasoned writer. Awaiting more such awesomatic works.