SOMEONE LIKE YOU…

OVERVIEW
• ‘Someone like you’ is a romantic story of college life. ‘Romance usually
refers to love emphasizing emotions .
• The college life has intervened very fantastically with love, friendship and
betrayal. The feeling of romance starts from this age, so everyone thinks
about own appearance.
• This is a story of relationship between college guys. It is like a movie, having
picturesque quality. We can visualize all pictures in front of our eyes. When
we read novel, surely we entered in the college life and enjoy it once again.
• The novel is written in first person narration of girl Niharika, who unfolds the
story of college guys nature, aspiration, brutality, aggressiveness, love and
hate, life of enjoy and death.
• The life in the novel is a magical world and dream land of youngsters. It
takes you back to your college days.
AUTHORS

• Durjoy Datta(born 7 February 1987) is an Indian

novelist, screenwriter and entrepreneur. His
screenwrting efforts include, Sadda Haq - My Life,
My Choice, Million Dollar Girl - From Banaras to
Paris on Channel V India
• Nikita Singh (born 6 October 1991) is an Indian
writer.She has written eleven book including
Every Time It Rains, Like a Love Song, The
Promise and After All This Time. In February 2013,
Someone Like You, a book she co-wrote
with Durjoy Datta, was released by Penguin
India. It debuted at No. 5 at Hindustan Times
Bestseller list.
THE BEGINNING

• The story starts with Niharika, common girl who thinks herself as an average girl. She thinks her sister Simran
is one of the beautiful girl.
• Simran provides many tips to Niharika for beauty. Niharika first time find herself as beautiful girl and adjusted
herself with short skirt. The modification of Niharika was exposed by every new comer in the college.
• She was acquainted with Simran’s boyfriend Veerat in Delhi college. Niharika was also longing for same
boyfriend that’s why the title of novel is Someone like you.
• Niharika was in search of love and she encountered with Akshat. He is a handsome boy, son of lord person. He
falls in love at first sight with Niharika.
• They went for dating one day and enjoy the company of each other. When Niharika gives this good news to
Simran that I got someone like Veerat but unfortunately she rejects Akshat as a perfect womanizer and fraud
bstard. The climax starts from here between true love and artificial love.
A NEW CHAPTER

• Niharika leaves for Nagpur, joining Indian Engineering College to forget Akshat and to make the end of
their relationship. She came across one of the very sweet shy Tanmay.
• They enjoy the first day of college, watching movie and facing the ragging of the fcking president of
college Chetan Mehata.
• It makes clear Tanmay is a good friend and nothing more than this. But the entry of Karthik on ragging
place makes the changes in the life of Niharika.
• At the same time re-entry of Akshat in college makes reader to hold the novel very tightly and enjoy the
love triangle between Niharika, Akshat and Karthik.
FRIENDS FOREVER
• Tanmay was bosom friend of Niharika interested into football game. He concentrated on football
because last three years IEC lost their ranking. Tanmay was selected from junior in team with the help of
Karthik.
• Both became intimate friend and lover of foot ball on the other hand Niharika also joined with Pia her
roommate. Here novel turns friend as a friends forever.
• Tanmay’s character is very touching being very small, he takes his college into final and enjoy
celebration of drinking with his team.
• He became very famous and practiced very hard on football. Though he loves Pia but neglected,
because Pia was in love with Vishal.
A DRASTIC CHANGE

• Tanmay drunk at night after won the match, he sing a song “ I love you! …… I love you! …… I love you!.
you are so beautiful!. You are my sunshine!.” 
•  He makes fun with Karthik and unfortunately he dies in an accident and the table turns down. Niharika
became very sad, she blames Karthik for the death of Tanmay.
• Karthik taught him to drink after won the match as well as he had given old bike, which is responsible
for Tanmay’s death.
EVERYTHING GOT CLEAR
• After some days, Niharika understand that Karthik was not responsible but Akshat her boyfriend. He followed Tanmay
thanking that he is Karthik on his bike. Tanmay borrowed bike for enjoyment after match.
• Karthik also thought that Tanmay had promised him, he will not drink on the bike riding. He destroyed his bike and
workshop thinking he was responsible for friend’s death.
• Niharika followed Karthik to tell all the incident created  by Akshat and Chetan Mehata. Here character of Akshat exposed,
he is going to sleep with two sisters. “He remembered the last time he had taken someone as fine as Niharika to bed.
• Nagpur was a fruitful playground for him. Every year, just as the new batch enters, he came to the campus to his old friend
f*cking president of college and entraps one of the many beautiful juniors”2. He had given bribe to police officer to shut up
the mouth about Tanmay’s accident.
• Narrator used epiphany for realization of true love. Pia was at first in love with Vishal but later realized that Tanmay was a
sweetheart who loved her vise versa she also loves him. He never became trouble between Pia and Vishal. She falls to
understand true love of Tanmay. She advised Niharika ‘don’t make the same mistake as me, if you love someone’. At the
same time picture of Karthik flashes in front of Niharika’s eyes. She realized her true love is not Akshat but Karthik.
THE FINAL MATCH

• The last scene opens with football final match in Indian Engineering College. To complete the dream of
Tanmay became the goal of Niharika, Karthik and Pia. Karthiks entry in football team was amazing to the
reader.
• He played slowly at first and attacked at the last session. He gives victory to the college and his love and
friend. He won football match and heart of Niharika on playground. Akshat went away after punching
Karthik on football match, he never come back.
• They never entered in those power and revenge game to gate back their friend Tanmay.
MY VIEWS

• Though writing Love and Relationship in college life is ongoing trend; incident happened in plots are
different than of earlier fiction. It is not of the level of If its not forever as that one was really interesting,
still it is good enough.
• The 248 pages long Book is a good piece of creation and reflects understanding of readers by both of
the writers.
• It would have been better if good literature, some good poems were includedIf someday any bollywood
director approaches to make it a movie, it will be powerful one.
LEARNINGS

• College life are the one where we experience transformations in our life. We get many friends in our life
who come to us as strangers but they leave a huge mark in our life to live in our heart for upcoming
times.
• Success, failures and Struggling keeps happening while fame and criticism are inseparable part. While
some of our mistakes may keep hunting us in time to time; there will be glorious moments to stay
memorable for rest of the time.