Mumbai: In an exclusive interview with author Ptajakta Kohli, where she shares insights on romance, relationships, and writing. She discusses the idea of perfect relationships, questioning if imperfections are necessary for interest. The author's novel, "Too Good to Be True," is explored, with its unrealistic love story and lack of a dramatic climax. The intentional creation of the perfect character, Aman, is also discussed.
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00:00Honestly, for me, I have loved how listening to an audiobook on Audible kind of gives you
00:14the experience of comfort because I know how the story is going to end.
00:18Because mostly I've read the story first.
00:21But at the same time, it's a whole new view because it's extremely immersive.
00:25It's like watching your favourite film but with a new filter, with a new cast, with a
00:33new whole thing.
00:34So it's like a nice twist on things.
00:36I've enjoyed audiobooks a lot.
00:38So when I was writing Too Good To Be True, even before I finished writing, I knew it
00:41had to be an audiobook.
00:47I don't think we get a choice in it.
00:50As people, I don't think you can ever sit down and choose how you want your relationship
00:54or your form of love to be.
00:56We all are so different.
00:59And every time there's any kind of difference that comes there, there is bound to be chaos.
01:04There is bound to be a little bit of imperfection that comes through.
01:08So I don't think you can ever sit and choose how you would want your relationship to be,
01:12which is why escapism is a thing.
01:15And you go and you listen to your favourite romance novels on audiobooks.
01:19So you know that they are perfect.
01:26It's not realistic at all.
01:28It's extremely, it's every romance book ever.
01:35There is a huge amount of aspiration that has come from my side into the story.
01:41Because that's what I miss about romance.
01:43That's what I enjoy about romance the most.
01:45That I know certain things don't add up, but I want to believe in it because of the aspiration
01:49of it.
01:50When I finish listening to a book, I want to go back slightly delusional about the ideas
01:55of life because the whims, the whimsical side of things is what gives romance fun for me.
02:02So nothing is real, actually, it's all made up and a lot of it is, I mean, I was very
02:08happy to hear about how much the viewers related to a lot of characters.
02:13But when it comes to the romance bit of it, it's a little extra.
02:18I mean, honestly, if you read something and you don't know that it's not real life, I
02:29don't think a book is something you, a romance book is something you should read because
02:36as a romance fan, we thrive on our fictional men, we are obsessed with them.
02:42And like I said, I enjoy the escapism of it the most.
02:46But having said that, I know when I go into it, I know how much of it is real and how
02:51much it is not.
02:53So also, unrealistic expectations is what?
02:57Because in our romance books, we get flat on like men flexing arms and forearm veins
03:06and like opening.
03:08It's a bare minimum.
03:09So it's not that unrealistic, it's something that should be expected.
03:16No, the readers can decide for everyone else, but I am Avani.
03:24When the movie is made.
03:26That we'll see.
03:27I haven't decided that yet.
03:31No, but I had that when I was writing it.
03:37When I started recording it, I actually had a ready script, like a bound final edit.
03:43So there was, I had disconnected with it by then, but I was like, now I can't keep
03:47working on this.
03:48And I was ready to take it forward in the audio book.
03:52Having said that, while we were recording it, I realized that a lot of things are funner
03:56to read and sound a little cringy when they're spoken.
03:59So then we had to make a little change here and there to just make that more palatable.
04:04But other than that, no, I had a great time recording this.
04:12I don't think it was a conscious choice.
04:14It was the easier choice though.
04:17It's my first book.
04:18I don't have any experience in writing so much, ever.
04:22And then having the guts to even publish it.
04:24So everywhere that I have made choices, I've made the easiest ones when it came to my characters,
04:30when it came to my stories, when it came to developing things, when it came to leaning
04:34on humor, when it came to explaining things and even to the climax.
04:39I wanted to keep it simpler because that was the only way I knew how to.
04:45And it was very important for me to write this book and publish it for me to know how
04:48I can get better at maybe telling the next climax in a way that is liked more.
05:01He is too good to be true.
05:02He is why the title happens to be that.
05:04My idea with the book was that what would happen if I would ever run into one of the
05:10characters, one of the people who are exactly like the characters in my romance novels,
05:16like male main characters who are too perfect, who can't do anything wrong.
05:20And somehow everything they do or say is justified in my mind.
05:23How would I react to someone like this?
05:26This was the seed of thought when it came to the book.
05:29And that's literally what it is.
05:31So he is perfect.
05:32He is too perfect.
05:34And he had to be that because otherwise there was no reason for Avani to not believe him.