In all fairness, there will be many readers who would perceive Kazi's book as a roller-coaster tale of the love of a school-going Rahul for (to borrow a phrase from the book's blurb) his “beautiful female equivalent,” Seema. The only way however to get through it all is to look for bits and pieces, sentences and passages that are intended to be grave and brimming with emotion and feeling and yet their luridness of detail and the floridity of style make them funny. Like B-grade Bollywood fare, Truly, Madly, Deeply is extremely sincere in intent and in all seriousness it borrows from, and includes a number of tropes and ideas that you would find in Bollywood love stories. If you're among those who every now and then (okay, once in a long while) don't mind watching and being entertained by such a movie, you might appreciate Faraaz Kazi's Truly, Madly, Deeply - a story of teenage “love that grew beyond proportions, transcended boundaries and resided in an enigmatic heart which had no words to describe what it felt to be throttled with love.” When you come across such a description in the author's note to the readers, you know it is going to be one of those books where you approach what is to follow with some amount of apprehension.
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