The Zoya Factor

By: Anuja Chauhan

Narrated by: Meetu Chilana

When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when not eating with her results in defeat, they decide she's a lucky charm.

The nation goes a step further. Amazed at the ragtag team's sudden spurt of victories, it declares her a goddess.

So when the eccentric IBCC president and his mesmeric, always exquisitely attired Swamiji invite Zoya to accompany the team to the tenth ICC World Cup, she has no choice but to agree.

Pursued by international cricket boards on the one hand, wooed by cola majors on the other, Zoya struggles to stay grounded in the thick of the world cup action. And it doesn't help that she keeps clashing with the erratically brilliant new skipper who tells her flatly that he doesn't believe in luck....

©2008 Anuja Chauhan (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Different from the movie

Since I’ve seen the movie before listening/reading the book my brain went into comparison mode, Zoya in the book is more understandable than the movie. Nikhil in the movie is more irritating than the book, even though I found the romance in the movie more relatable (if so called). The many many characters that have been changed between the two took a lot out of the original story. Especially Mon, she is supposed to be a friend, why was she portrayed as an evil person on screen?

I rated this book so highly because it deserves it, the performance has taken us to the games, the late night meetings and all the drama that occurred once Zoya has been discovered.

Highly recommend