Moonstone: The Incredible One Hour

by Atul Gupta

Performing Arts Festival (PAF) is an inter hostel competition at IIT Bombay, where a pair of hostels present an hour long skit. The paired hostels completely own the performance, right from script writing, to dramatization, sets, sound, lights, music, and publicity to attract people to come and watch the show. This story, a laughter riot, is about the PAF presented by H6 and H9 in 1991. With an amazing story line, some never before seen incredible special effects, amazing light and sound effects, great actors, musicians, and dancers, in short with an abundance of talent, Moonstone was headed for a definite victory. Did they succeed?

In this non-fiction humor book titled “Moon Stone: The Incredible One Hour”, I have tried to capture the very interesting true life story behind this PAF. Teenage is a time of our life which is usually filled with the maximum fun and adventure and if you are one of those who spent it in a hostel, then it is almost like double bonanza. I did my graduation from IIT Powai and stayed in the hostel for 4 years and can easily say that those 4 years where one of the best times of my life. The book is also laced with many additional humorous incidents from my life at IIT Powai.

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 26, 2013

Reviews

[Rubina]

Moonstone is a captivating story for all those who have had a campus life in the IIT. The small small pranks and the feeling of comradie amongst the students, makes one want to be part of this gang. I have refrained from reviewing this book further because I am not a reader of this genre and might not do justice to this book. But Atul Gupta's sporadic sense of humor had me turning the pages. The style of writing is different, unique in fact. Good editing, as usual, would have done wonders to this book.

[Chandana Sruthi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Incredible one hour , is full of laughs when the Moon stone theme starts,
the publicity is incredible idea to do funereal,
the most super part is drama , its hilarious , the one whom i am reading is rofl , i can understand how people there laughing.

Ok not all book is funny, mostly the moonstone is so funny. the stopping bajana scene wow, siva presence of mind is so good. I liked this book .

I recommend to read from 55, the first part is little boring, i cant blame as every book needs introduction this parts serves it .

The cartoons are +ve points for book

[Sankalpita (bookGeeks India) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Moonstone: The Incredible One Hour is all about a hilarious (and true) episode in the life of the author Atul Gupta. This episode occurred while the author was pursuing his studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Powai ....

Read the full review here - http://www.bookgeeks.in/entries/humou...

[Atul Gupta · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved writing the book. Hope you all will like reading it