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A Bollywood Affair Audio CD – Oct. 28 2014

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In the tradition of Shobhan Bantwal's successful Indian American novels, Sonali Dev's debut captures the colorful spirit and fascinating details of Indian and Bollywood culture - including a lavish wedding - while delivering an emotionally layered and accessible story.

Mili Rathod has been bound by marriage since she was four years old. But when her husband shows no sign of claiming her after twenty years of waiting, Mili grabs the chance to leave India and come to America on a scholarship.

Playboy filmmaker Samir ''Sam'' Rathod is Bollywood's favorite bad boy. He'll do anything for his big brother - even travel halfway across the globe to take care of the ''wife'' who just crawled out of his brother's past. Yet Mili isn't the simple village girl Sam expected. She's a whirlwind who sucks him into her roommate's elaborate elopement and soon has him drowning in her onyx eyes. And though Mili fancies herself in love with his big brother, the husband she has never met, Sam is hoping for a very different ending.

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Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Oct. 28 2014
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1481502662
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged edition (Oct. 28 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1481502662
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1481502665
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 204 g

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Award winning author, Sonali Dev, writes Bollywood-style love stories that let her explore issues faced by women around the world while still indulging her faith in a happily ever after.

Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post and Kirkus Best Books of the year lists. She has won the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer’s Choice award for best contemporary romance, the RT Seal of Excellence, and is a RITA Finalist.

Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both patience and humor, and the world’s most perfect dog. Find out more at sonalidev.com.

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Author Samreen Ahsan

Bollywood reeling in my head

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 16, 2019

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This book was like reeling a Bollywood movie in your head. I enjoyed it as it kept me engaged. It’s for those readers who enjoy Bollywood style, full masala books

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Loved it!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 10, 2021

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Such a good read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 29, 2018

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I loved this sweet romance! Not only did I adore the characters in this lovely story, it opened my eyes to a whole new culture. Is it wrong I now crave homemade chapatis? Can’t wait to read The Bollywood Bride!

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Mulley

An Indian Love Story

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 22, 2017

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When life gives you lemons, you have to make lemonade. This is the story of the journey to learning how to make the lemonade and fulfill ones life's dreams of love.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 29, 2018

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Thank you. I’m happy

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 24, 2019

As a reviewer, I loved this book and as a writer I admired Dev’s ability to portray the old tradition of child marriage and the ever in trend racism and merge them convincingly in a new frame. In A Bollywood Affair, Mili and Samir meet under manufactured yet hilarious circumstances. Samir, a hot Bollywood director, is in Ypsilanti, Michigan to secure his older brother, Virat’s divorce from Mili, a village girl from India. They’d been married since she was four, a tradition Mili takes very seriously. She has never seen him since the ‘marriage’ and now she’s in America to further her education all the while dreaming of the day when her husband will come to claim her.
Samir has his own baggage. Abused by his grandfather for being a ‘white bastard’ offspring of his son and an American, he’s abandoned by his biological mother when his father dies in America. Samir follows Mili to Michigan and fabricates a story about being in town for a workshop and Mili never finds out about Samir’s successful career in Bollywood until much later. They tumble into each other’s lives and get closer, Dev’s talent for creating banter between the two giving the reader quite the ride. Her friend and roommate, Ridhi’s development as a secondary character does not hit the mark. The same can be said for a few of the other characters.
A Bollywood Affair is a delicious read with lots of food and colors. A couple of bumps on the road of this fabulous trip do not in any way deter from the flow. It drew me in from the very first page to the last. Of course, this being a romance I knew there was going to be a HEA and Dev did it in a fabulous and unforgettable way. Samir who is hot, carefree and confident in the beginning turns into a hot, brooding hero. Mili who is shy, evolves into a sexy firebrand. Hot vibes, sizzling chemistry and emotional ups and downs tug at the heartstrings and it was an enjoyable read.

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Shantala Shenoy Nayak

This book made me feel all warm & fuzzy, and left me with the goofiest smile on my face.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 6, 2018

I loved this book. I have no idea why I waited so long to get to it, but I'm glad I finally picked it up. This was a beautiful, emotional, endearing love story which made me feel all warm & fuzzy, and reminded me (all over again) why I love this genre of romance so much.

I adored both Mili and Samir, and really enjoyed their friendship, their hilarious banter, and the sizzling chemistry that gradually developed between them. These were two people who were undoubtedly meant to be together, though I must say that their road to happily ever after, was full of Bollywood style drama & heart-rending angst. But then, the way I look at it, the whole Bollywood circus only made the conclusion all the more delightful and gratifying, which is exactly what you want in a romance.

Oh I have to say this, the narration was simply fantastic. It's been a long time since I have read a romance that has been this addictive, that it was almost unputdownable.

And no I wouldn't say it was perfect. There were places, where I found it a little too trope-y, too dramatic, a little stereotypical, and definitely over the top, but then how would it ever truly be A Bollywood Affair without most (if not all) of the above?

And at any rate, overall it was really adorable, enough to make me want to overlook all the small imperfections, and just revel in all the things that were amazing about this book.

All in all, it's a charming & heartwarming romance, which made my heart feel like a bag of mush, and left me with the goofiest smile on my face. So needless to say, I would recommend it to anyone and everyone who loves a good Bollywood style romance.

- Shantala at Shanaya Tales

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 6, 2016

Love this book. Love the author. Light hearted, easy to read, but not frivolous at all. Read all of Dev's books. Loved em all. Starting with this one.

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Miss Bellatrix

Not so Filmy Shilmy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 29, 2015

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Mili has been married since she was a child to a man she barely remembers. For the last 20 years she has been hoping he will come and get her.

Samir's brother doesn't realise the marriage he was forced into as a child still holds, he sends him to the US to get her to sign annulment papers, assuming the village girl will be easy to persuade. Things don't go to plan.

Get what you pay for with this book really.

A pretty basic and unnecessarily complicated story in parts that takes pains in some areas that didn't need to be complicated and glosses over points that should probably be explained more comprehensively because they seem pretty unbelievable (though maybe slightly more believable than Bollywood standards was what she was going for).

Didn't root for either of the main protags, Samir's reaction to any woman he's not related to or Mili are pretty derogatory and he engages in deceit and manipulates for gain without much sense of guilt. Mili is more likeable, but is your standard Mary Sue that's clumsy (see Bella Swan). She makes irrational decisions (like the decision to trust Samir at all) and seems to spend a lot of time crying or falling over.

That mingled with the frankly tediously repetitive use of descriptive writing when it came to Samir and Mili bordered on cliché (lots of cascading hair and sparkling eyes). The descriptive use for some scene settings were good, but besides Mili and Samir, there didn't seem to be a lot of reference to how many of the other characters looked, not always a fault in writing, but with such focus on how the main characters looked, the other characters seemed to be an afterthought and (unsurprisingly) are otherwise pretty one dimensional and undeveloped character wise too.

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Asteria

Wonderful!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 28, 2015

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I just adored this story of Mili and Samir. It's very well written with developed characters and a storyline that keeps hold of you. I loved the cultural details woven into the story. The relationship between the two protagonists develops beautifully. A wonderful read - one to savour and thoroughly enjoy!

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Vicky C

bollywood affair

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 24, 2018

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Not a bad story. A few curse words that didn't need to be there but all in all a fairly interesting tale.

Mrs. M. Wiggins

Couldn't put it down

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 30, 2015

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An excellent read. Fun and enlightening. Can't wait to read more from this talented authoress. She will go near the top of my list.

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mo

Good enough

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 20, 2015

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Typical Bollywood story. Interesting

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