Ishita Deshmukh's ‘Heart Quake’
is set in the disastrous times in Gujarat in 2001, when a major earthquake hit
the place. The book begins with nurse, Sonal Patel, who has
come to Bhuj to help out a team of doctors at Shanti Vaas. This entire camp was
set up in the city to treat the numerous patients, who kept coming to the hospital
in the wake of the quake. But Sonal was in the city to also look for her best friend,
Smita who lived in the same city.
One day, when she is busy hunting around for Smita, in
the many camps, when she suddenly comes across her ex-boyfriend, Tejas Desai,
who apparently was there too. Tejas was here to pick the worst of the cases to
treat them in his newly set up multi-speciality hospital.
The
story traces their love story, which had begun earlier and to find true love amongst
disasters. Plus, there is also Dilip’s factor, who was her to be fiancé. Dilip
who was her friend for all these years, when Tejas was not to be seen, was
looking forward to being Sonal’s husband. The mind and the heart were meant to
fight each other, as they do in Sonal’s life too.
She also,
has to worry about her colleagues, who seem to be stuck at this point too. There
is all the mess with her colleague, Nurse Pooja who also seemed to be falling for Tejas. Then,
also her other colleagues, a doctor and another nurse, who seem to be in love with
each other. This was the case, before the nurse finds out all about it. He, not only has a wife and son, but 'apparently' he also loves the nurse.
He also, is the wrong person to go
to, with him handling the wrong medicines and not treating his patients
properly. His flight from the entire situation, explains it all. And there are othe
bad causes at work, henchmen in terrible times too. The wrong agents at work are trying to make money from the entire situation.
The best people of this lot include Sonal’s mother,
Chitra who seemingly calmly guides her daughter, into the next phase of her
life. As does Dilip, who stays in love with Sonal through the whole story.
In the city of Bhuj, after the entire shock, and the
aftershocks it leaves behind, will these people survive it? It is a definite dramatic
story, with a mixture of emotions of love, friendship, and a whole bunch of confusion,
hate, crime, hope and disaster. The story was alright, but then the range of
people was a little high. It was not only a love story, but it was a mixture of
so many emotions.
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