The Zoya Factor
Book written by Anuja Chauhan

One of the craziest book i have read in the last three months of reading frenzy and i can say my book-reading lifetime too. The craziness of this book can be best appreciated by somebody who understands the cricket frenzy in India or is an Mills & Boons type of romantic.....obviously i related to the latter.

Before i say anything more....this is a work of pure fiction...so obviously all this has never happened in Indian cricket.

The story revolves around this woman Zoya who is a facchu in the advertising industry and happens to be born on the same moment when India won the world cup in 1983. She, the Indian cricket team (except the team captain...yes yes Dhoni...but he is called Nikhil Khodha in this book) and soon the entire cricket world is convinced that she has this power which will make the team win if she has breakfast with them. So the book is about how she becomes the great "Zoya Devi" in our superstitious cricket crazed nation from a no-one of the advertising industry. When all she wanted was to meet Shahrukh Khan (I immediately connected on that one) in one of the ad shoots she was sent to do this work with the Indian cricket team and she was a "cricket challenged" person like me . In a true MB style she meets Nikhil Dhodha and her encounter starts with an uncomfortable situation. The story crazily proceeds as the "Zoya Devi Factor" keeps getting re-inforced and the romance between Nikhil and Zoya moves and ends in a true MB style.

I must say that my knowledge about the Indian cricket team and the advertising industry has definitely become better....and most of all I can never see MS Dhoni as Dhoni ever again...he is Nikhil Khodha for me.....Zoya's love :).

Hope a miracle like this actually happens in the next world cup for India.