Author : Nitin Sawant
“Lucifer Lungi” is a petite, interesting and adventurous journey of a guy, where his beliefs and disbeliefs are taken into account which laid him to discover a truth about his fear in a tragic situation.
As the back cover says-‘ An atheist city-slicker unleashed on a medieval holy village…A simpleton village priest’s boy who blindly worships and guards a pantheon of Gods and Their traditions…Strange things happen when their worldscollide!
This is a tale of that turmoil on a lonely night in a jungle, when the ghosts you never knew till a few hours ago are let loose on the ghosts that you always carried within, unknowingly.Welcome to the unholy clash of beliefs, fears and frailties with unknown Gods and demons. A clash that will test your convictions. A clash that will rabidly claw and unmask your subconscious, leaving you naked and paralyzed in front of your demons – in a climax that is as ambiguous as it is certain…Welcome to the madness of ‘Lucifer’s Lungi’…where What-You-See-Is-NOT-What-You-Get…’
For me,it’s a kind of tale children used to listen from their parents/grandparents or they read in their short-tale story book. It somehow lend me to those days when I used to listen/read such stories and thoroughly enjoyed such adventurous and alien stories.While reading this story,many questions crept in my mind just like an inquistive child – whether you believe in God and evil spirit and magic?Would protagonist going to believe all?What would happen at the end?Eventually this story is able to drag me till the end.
An amusing title and a cover good enough to gather attention and also does justice with the story.An interesting theme it was, and well potrayed which is able to give nice visualization even in less-elaborative story.Story didn’t drifted from it’s path ,rather it was pacing in a smooth flow and point-to-point description has been given.Some witty and humorous incidents potrayed in the book,and they worked as a catalyst which made the tale interesting.
Author’s writing fashion is interesting, it can hook readers to the story.It is simple and compact which helps reader to complete it in a single go.I think the story needed to be exposed more,so that one could enjoy the tale with more fun on getting a well-served spicy tale.Some more spice to the tale,would do the trick.If the story is elaborated a bit more and some more twists and turns could be a part of this tale,then this reading journey would be more interesting. The mythological story should go in depth so that it could create the perfect ambience of fear.I felt the flavor of fear missing which I think is most required.
All in all, a nice and diminutive book which can take you on a different ride.Specially recommended for children.
Rating- 3.2/5
Reviewer : Shweta Kesari