जादूगरनी

Sunil #87

by सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक

वो एक निहायत नामुराद औरत थी । उसके एक बार नमूदार होने की देर थी कि तबाही बरपा गयी थी । वो कुछ भी कर सकती थी । वो किसी को तोता बनाकर पिंजरे में बंद कर सकती थी, मक्खी बनाकर दीवार से चिपका सकती थी । वो जादूगरनी थी । एक अविस्मरणीय किरदार की अविस्मरणीय कहानी । सुनील सीरीज का एक सनसनीखेज उपन्यास ।

Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1983

About the author

Surender Mohan Pathak, is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with 314 books to his credit. His major characters are Crime reporter Sunil (unprecedented 123 Titles), Vimal (46 Titles) and Philosopher Detective Sudhir (23 titles). Apart from series, he has written 60+ Novels in thriller category.

Reviews

[Shobhit Shobhit · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best book written by Pathak Sir. It is for the first time we see main character of series Sunil, the reporter who is famous for his gentleness, is being attracted to the beauty of a lady.

[Ashwin Dongre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jadugarani is one of those awesome whodunits. Mystery is well maintained. The suspence keeps you on the toes. Most of the times, I notice the clues in SMPs novels which helps identify the culprit, or at least I start to get an inkling of who it might be, well in advance of Sunil. This is one of the rare novels, where I had to stop reading and take stock of what has happened, who are the main characters, how they fit in to the present scenarios, who could be lieing, etc and then come to the conclusion identifying the murderer. As the title indicates, there is no doubt that she is one of the main villains, but it's also clear that she's not the one going around killing everyone. It really took a little thought put into this to identify who that was. It's so well hidden in the story! I also figured out why Prabhudayal was replaced with another inspector in this story. It was clear there were going to be some things which (and what) he was going to do. One thing that I feel that does not go well with the character is that of Mantriji. I can't get my head around the fact that he would prioritize self preservation to the life of his beloved daughters.
I would have rated this book 5 star, except for the narration, which is below 2 stars, that's why I rated here 4.
Having said that, I must say that SMP's Sunil series novels are great. We need all of them to be converted into audiobooks here.
Audible needs to get a better narrator. Sameer Goswami has a great voice. But great voice with good timber are not the only requirements for a good narrator. A great narrator needs ability to modulate his voice, and most importanly he needs to be able to emote. Goswami does neither of those, Even when the story says the character said the sentence in some particular way, he does not do it. For example, when the script says the speaker shouted, he reads it as if saying with gritting teeth. He narrates in almost monotone. His focus to enunciate each word results in unnatural reading. For example, he pronounced 'Cold drink' as 'colduh dreenk'. Often he reads in Arabi accent, for example when he reads, "wo bola". If you've listened to any of the Audible audiobooks, you'll spot the difference in his performance. I mean I'm not saying he has to be as great as Ray Porter, but he can be at least an average narrator who can emote and modulate.
Audible, please please convert all of the SMP's Sunil and Sudhir series novels, but use a better narrator.

[Satyajeet · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Witch

One of the best books by Pathak saab. The story is simply mind blowing and the central character is simply out of this world. Hats off
4 stars...