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Updated On: 09 November, 2010 09:32 AM IST | | Promita Mukherjee
Anuja Chauhan gets candid on her new book, and how she is about to become a 'nighty' person
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Anuja Chauhan gets candid on her new book, and how she is about to become a 'nighty' person
Youu00a0could almost miss her in an empty restaurant or confuse her with a young college-goer in a mall. But despite her petite frame, author Anuja Chauhan (once known as the 'mother of Pepsi in India with her campaigns like Yeh Dil Maange More) is a bundle of energy. The author is what convent school teachers would love to admonish as a chatterbox. 
Anuja Chauhan at the launch of her book
But all the chatter does nothing to hide the tension. With her new book, Battle for Bittora, out in the market, Chauhan is clearly jittery. "Now it is more like, Oh God. The writing was fun but the anticipation is more scary," she says.
Fated in Bittoragarh
But the good part about a book, she says, is "the writing". After exploring the world of cricket in her first book The Zoya Factor which is being turned into a Bollywood flick by Red Chillies Entertainment, in the second book Anuja has delved into the world of politics. Before you do a flip, Battle for Bittora is a light read, something one would enjoy on board a flight or simply in the recess during classes.
This time, she sets her book in the fictional land of Pavit Pradesh, bang in the Hindi heartland. Her protagonist Sarojini aka Jinnie Pande is a kitaanu animator who works in Mumbai's Pixel Animations, far away from the world of politics.
But as fate would have it, her grandmother Pushpa Pande (aka Amma), once a formidable politician of Pavit Pradesh, now cornered in the Pragati Party (very much reminding you of the Congress party but Anuja vigorously denies any similarity) drops in at her office, and announces plans that she leave everything aside and help her in the upcoming elections, for which she is battling hard to get a party ticket. So off goes Jinnie with her grandmom to Delhi, where she meets her childhood friend, and sweetheart, Zain Altaf Khan.
Incidentally, from later that night Zain is to be her political adversary in the Lok Sabha constituency of Bittoragarh.
It's a whirlwind ride for both of them after that as they adjust to heartland and party politics, and also their love-hate relationship with each other.
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