Cold Cock  (Hardcover, Mukul Ranjan)

The world of Television Channel is unpredictable, unbelievable, unimaginable and sometime unnerving and unbearable too. Ashwin, an IT engineer comes to terms with this reality only after he joins the fledgling Bhojpuri TV Channel, Birha. At Birha a brigade of professionals, each with a trait to look for, brimming with energy, passion and aspiration to make it big someday waits for the launch. But Mynah, a supervising producer in the channel is like a designer label. God never repeats such characters. She storms in Ashwin’s world with a question, ‘Did I scare you?’ And then takes him on a rollercoaster ride of his life. Birha’s office has quirky and eccentric people leading the organisation. One flip flop after another, conflicting ideas of leadership, ego hassles, cat fights, leg pulling amongst the various employees puts a. Question mark about Birha’s launch. This office is a heaven for bumbling idiots. People are hired here not just for their talents but for their extraneous abilities too. Can anybody imagine what would be the fate of such an organisation ? Mynah and Ashwin strike a chemistry that’s rare. It also stimulates her relationship with Ashwin to cross all the limits and sizzle through the time. Ashwin has to fight the demons in his office with his chips down. Mynah has to control and anchor her life, visibly drowning in the quicksand called Birha. And what happens of the fate of Birha, almost on the verge of collapse ? Ashwin and Mynah get bitterly affected too with this non stop rigmarole of drama going on in their lives, both professional and personal. They decide to give space in their relationship. But are they allowed to do so by the different elements pulling them apart ? The characters criss cross each other’s lives with their own selfish motives and petty revenge. A hilarious story spiked by some unusual dramatic moments keep unfolding. It unravels the, hitherto unknown, seedy, sleazy, murky, funny and crazy side of a Television Channel through Ashwin and Mynah’s smouldering see saw relationship.