He's selling paan that ups sexual desire

And Anurag Kashyap is buying the idea In his debut book The Diary of an Unreasonable Man Madhav Mathur devises bizarre solutions for common societal problems And they are soon going onscreenTo shame is the best way to blame is Madhav Mathurs idiosyncratic ideology The banker by day and writer by night bang in the middle of his twenties believes in anything but the midway In his debut novel The Diary of an Unreasonable Man he proves that nothing but extremity works today Especially when it comes to gunning down great social evilsu00a0 But no that doesnt have to do with terror Face painting is good enough The Guide caught him for a chatHow unreasonable are youPretty But not as unreasonable as my protagonist and his friendsSo they are a zanier form of you In what wayTo quote an instance they are tired of the way the government is handling the prostitution racket To them shutting down establishments isnt the solution So they devise a plan to target the real culprits the clients They pose as sellers of a unique invention aphrodisiacal paan to pimps and there product is a hit What the consumers dont know is that the paan contains a skincolouring compound thats going to turn them green the next day The following morning they place huge advertisements in leading papers that talk of the greenfaced monsters and why they look that way So theres no escapeSurely that wont work for realI researched if such a skincolouring edible compound exists and yes itll work Ditto with their ways My protagonists are extremists but they know violence has no value The scum of the earth who blow up cars and people only end up being a reason for body counts Their message is lost But if one is shamed chances are he learns his lesson Its all a matter of reactivity If you do something unusual the impact can be huge depending on how outrageous and relevant it isIs it gupshup with funloving friends that inspires you to come up with such crazy stuffNo I work alone Ive been writing since I was eight and so the thoughts are a slow burn Ive grown up seeing problems of environment corruption the forced class divide My premise may be ordinary but Ill always bring things to book in a fun way even if the problem itself isnt otherworldly This book also brings out the darker part of myself The extremist sideHow did Anurag Kashyap come across the scriptIt was on a journey from Mumbai to Pune for a film fest I got in touch with him through a popular movie blog Passionforcinema after I fell in love with Black Friday and No Smoking In the car he read my then unpublished story while I went through his script for Dev D We both liked each others work And he said yes Ill do itThat was a long time ago You wanted to explore the movie prospects before the book itselfI always like to keep my workinprogress folder heavier than the done one Also Im into filmmaking myself so yes the prospect of a movie got me excitedBut you know what happens when a book becomes a film Are you ready to sacrifice your storyAnurag puts a lot of thought in his work I am confident hell do justice to my script Improvisation only does good to any creative piece and I will be part of the production process Given a chance would you want to give your collegekidisque theories a tryI invented them Anyones welcome to try them out Theyd work like nothing else and be loads of fun I promise The plotPranav Kumar isa An advertising executiveb An aspiring writerc An anarchistd A fugitive from the Mumbai Policee All of the abovePranav Kumar has had enough Hes sick and tired of being a corporate drone convincing people that their lives are meaningless without the newest product hes peddling He hates that commercialism is the newu00a0 mantra and people actually believe that you are what you own He and his pals the Anarchists of Mumbai take over a TV station expose an environmental scam strike out at patrons of brothels sabotage a glitzy fashion show and paintbomb a local train But doing good comes at a priceExtractWhat about the paans he said the pimp Why do I need a paan store inside my building there are so many on the streetThats where youre mistaken sir They are special paans designed to increase the pleasure of your clients If you want details I can pass you a brochurethis would definitely boost my business moreIt would also give you that competitive advantage by improving the quality and diversity of the service you provide I chirped helpfully So do we have a deal We already knew the answerAn Unreasonable Man published by Penguin is available at leading bookstores for Rs 199