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Now That You’re Rich…., is a story about four over achieving nerds who land themselves in job that pays at a higher rate that they could think about spending. But life isn’t all rosy as Abhi and Shruti grapple with ridiculously workaholic yet charming bosses in crisp suits hired right out of hell. Saurav doesn’t find the going easy either, as he struggles to make this way into the skirts of the incredible hot female colleagues. Garima on the other hand, aloof and distant, doesn’t give a shit. Things are fine as they get along but…… As they fall in love, sleep around with all the wrong people and recession threatens to take the company down, their bonds strain…till one day, the very reason that got them together tears them apart. MONEY Hideous human resource managers picking on them, horny seniors looking down their cleavages, piles of workload, crazy shopping sprees, crates of beer and endless cups of coffee………Out from college and into the real world…how does it change them? Love makes the world go round. But money buys the tickets. Money? Love? In this age old battle what wins this time? Based on real life stories and…..coffee break gossip Now That You’re Rich…., is a story about four over achieving nerds who land themselves in job that pays at a higher rate that they could think about spending. But life isn’t all rosy as Abhi and Shruti grapple with ridiculously workaholic yet charming bosses in crisp suits hired right out of hell. Saurav doesn’t find the going easy either, as he struggles to make this way into the skirts of the incredible hot female colleagues. Garima on the other hand, aloof and distant, doesn’t give a shit. Things are fine as they get along but…… As they fall in love, sleep around with all the wrong people and recession threatens to take the company down, their bonds strain…till one day, the very reason that got them together tears them apart. MONEY Hideous human resource managers picking on them, horny seniors looking down their cleavages, piles of workload, crazy shopping sprees, crates of beer and endless cups of coffee………Out from college and into the real world…how does it change them? Love makes the world go round. But money buys the tickets. Money? Love? In this age old battle what wins this time? Based on real life stories and…..coffee break gossip

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

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Profile Image for Akshat Solanki.
Author 1 book98 followers
December 24, 2015
"No, no, no, don't read his books, he writes garbage."

I heard this inner voice of mine after reading his book. The time I read his book, I didn't know of him before, so, of course, no perceptions.

I thought of reading something better, but expecting good literature from young Indian writers is like expecting water in the long desert.

You might even get water, but not literature quality.

This book has just dreamy-dreamy plot that sucks your brain nerves.

I don't think if it's need any word from me more than these.
18 reviews
March 26, 2016
Now I am off with a knife to kill the friend who recommended this book to me...!
Profile Image for Ram Kumar.
30 reviews8 followers
June 29, 2012
Beginning was really good. Durjoy & Maanvi's characterisation is good & entertaining. But, everything is messed up in the end. Very predictable climax. Disappointed after reading my 1st book by Durjoy :(
Profile Image for Chhaya Kaushik.
7 reviews3 followers
February 28, 2013
interesting book
shruti's story in the book is like modern day cinderella tale
Profile Image for Shweta Kaushik.
5 reviews
November 23, 2012
Very recently i've started reading Durjoy i and love his writing. This is also very nice one but got little dragged in the last with Rishabh part.
3 reviews
August 13, 2013
the worst I've read so far, the one star I gave is only cos of few heart touching moments.as far as the story line goes, after reading the end u'll feel like it was such a pain in the ass
Profile Image for Neha Shehrawat.
69 reviews43 followers
May 6, 2019
I don't know, what I was thinking. It might be a good read for a high school teenager. Not my cup of tea.
Profile Image for Sharath.
344 reviews29 followers
January 22, 2020
Though this book is absolute garbage at times, some parts of it about money being the prime aspect of today's love stories is far from being untrue..

Its true that the love makes the world go round and Money buys the tickets and that happens to be the prime intention of our generation indeed...

Story is not gripping but some, just some advice of it strikes admirable...

Its a huge message for us (boys) of today staging what really is in meta..

Just..

Grow Rich...
Nothing else matters...

I agree that its bulls**t and is not veracious everytime but many of my personal acquaintance suggets otherwise...
Profile Image for Manu♡.
202 reviews5 followers
May 4, 2022
A perfect balance between normal life, friendship, love, and work life!!!!!!!!!
If you ever wanna know what a beautiful yet twisted life looks like read it. Just upgrading your taste. Thank me later :)
Profile Image for Mohammed Arman ul Haq.
16 reviews1 follower
September 30, 2025
2.0 Stars
You were nothing when I met you! You were nothing but a bookworm and a nerd! I made you what you are… I did or otherwise you would have been still roaming around the college alone, eating Maggi with your head buried in your books.

Riya's claim that Abhijeet was 'nothing but a bookworm' & that she 'made him what he is' drips with a sense of superiority & condescension. She weaponizes his past to inflate her ego. It comes off as a petty, almost vindictive effort to reduce his success to her own doing. I felt bad for Abhijeet here, as her words completely strip him of his dignity & autonomy.

It was his explanation to all his goofiness and awkwardness: his IIT Identification Card.
He had asked a few of the housekeeping staff for their numbers, but it didn’t work out. Even saying that he was an IIT graduate didn’t help.
Saurav smiled inside on hearing the IIT part..

Saurav came off as a one-trick pony—his IIT degree was his only card. His entire persona revolved around that achievement, nothing more. The author seemed to have pigeonholed Saurav as nothing but an IIT graduate, with his whole identity wrapped up in it.

He cursed the men, and wished the women were naked.

This isn't a crude sexual thought—it's a clear sign of objectification. It's like stripping women down to nothing but their looks, acting like they're just eye candy for him to devour. This line reveals Saurav's sleazy, fantasy-driven mindset.
The word 'bitch' seemed glued to Saurav's tongue—it was his go-to insult, always laced with resentment. He threw the word 'bitch' like confetti, always with a sharp edge of spite.
Also, for someone with a history that led to being typecast, even if it’s rooted in just one relationship, he shows no interest in correcting that perception through his actions. Instead, he clings to the notion that he’s been wronged, as though the label of 'serial flirt' was unfairly tattooed on him without reason. Shruti has got a razor-sharped radar for his serial flirt tendencies.

They always say it is better to be with someone who loves you than to be
with someone whom you love.


‘It’s not really my loss, it would be ideally my dad’s loss, and I really don’t
care,’ he said..


When Rishab dismissively says, "it would ideally be my dad's loss," it reveals his privileged worldview, where personal accountability is optional because there’s always someone else to foot the bill. It’s a telling moment that paints him as someone who has grown accustomed to shirking responsibility, thanks to a life insulated by wealth and indulgence.

'Seems like your kids and your wife are going to love a forty-year-old dad who can make twenty-year-old girls scream in a parking lot!'

Saurav's shifting demeanor, from a guilt-ridden employee to an assertive negotiator, is one of the most striking elements of the interaction when Rajat calls him on New Year's Eve at 3 in the morning. Rajat maintains an air of superiority, dismissing Saurav's threats with a detached, almost dismissive tone. But when Saurav pushes harder, particularly by referencing the recording with precise details, Rajat's composure begins to crack. The fact that Rajat takes several seconds to respond to Saurav's pointed remark about his wife shows how rattled he is. His earlier bravado vanishes & it becomes clear that Saurav has managed to get under his skin. Saurav manipulates Rajat's fears with surgical precision, knowing that the threat of exposing Thapar's infidelity to his wife is far more powerful than any career threat.

This book ends on a bit of a dud — more of a whimper than a bang. Sure, it paints a pretty grim picture of life in the corporate grind, but it misses the mark when it comes to hitting you where it counts. Shruti's confusion about why Rishab chose her is valid, yet the story never answers it. Honestly, I couldn’t figure it out either. The emotional depth feels hollow, and it all fizzles out like a damp firecracker.
Profile Image for Sundeep Supertramp.
336 reviews56 followers
February 17, 2013
Now That You're Rich ... Let's Fall In Love... More than 75% of its buyers might have picked it by its title. But I picked it up for the top line on the cover, which read, 'Over 250,000 copies sold'. It must contain something special to attract such a huge response.

Plot:
Four twenty one year old overachieving nerds are about to leave their old lives behind - cheating boyfriends, tyrant parents, sad loe lives and backbiting friends. It is time for a new beginning.

One dream job.

Cars, big houses, expensive suits and pretty shoes, luxury vruises - the world awaits them! But is life perfect? Is money all what you need? What do you do when seniors pick on you, look down your cleavages, dump you with piles of workload and you live on endless cups of coffee and crates of beer? Out from college and into the real world, how does it change them? Does the scent of money lure them away from the bliss of friends and relationship?

In this age old battle between money and love, what wins this time?

My take on the book:
Perhaps, the sequel of the other book named, 'Of course I love you.. Till I Find Better...'. (You can find the review of that book, here...). I wonder where Durjoy finds the titles of his books. Witty, funny and crude ones. This one, unlike the other one, is not very raw and rugged. If the other one was wholly about college life and love story, this one is about corporate lives, relationships, pestering bosses, friendship and love. That is what the Indian readers - mostly, comprising of teens and youth - want to read.

Though the book is the sequel of the book - Of course I love you - there is little connection between the two books. The characters the new, the plot is new, the story is new, the book itself is new. Only the narrator remains the same - Deb. Deb is the lead character and the narrator of the other..................

To read the whole review follow this link...
30 reviews
January 14, 2017
Horrible... He reminded of everything that I dislike in books by Indian authors. The language was horrible.. all I could think was "Why, oh why did I waste my time on this!". He completely put me off books by Indian authors till I read Palace of Illusions. This book restored my faith in Indian authors.
Profile Image for Aakash Arora.
1 review
May 30, 2012
What do you guys think? Well I think you need to read it immediately to know whether they could retain their friends or their job or both.
Profile Image for Nikhil Arora.
1 review9 followers
February 4, 2013
A sweet story of common college going guys and the youth of India. The good part is you get hooked to it.
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15 reviews
February 20, 2015
Time-pass Fare...Ignore if you have better options. Read if you have none (As I did) !
Profile Image for Utkarsh Agarwal.
2 reviews8 followers
March 4, 2019
The book contains 4 characters who belong to different strata's of life - Abhijeet, Shruti, Saurav, & Garima.
Abhijeet is a tall, good-looking young brat but is sophisticatedly a middle-class person, who has never fallen in love, until being heartbroken in an infatuation. He wishes to become a rich man like all his uncle's as they always try to humiliate him and his family by saying about their high-class life and stuff.
Shruti is a beautiful, pretty model looking young girl, with modern thoughts but faces a lot of issues which are imposed upon her by her parent's who are fat, ugly and have a very old mindset; being neck deep in debts, want their amazing daughter to marry the son of their Boss, who is a rich man, even though that boy is a divorcee.
Saurav is a very fat, rich boy, born with a silver spoon in his mouth; is still struggling to get laid (to lose his virginity) but is extremely tacky to get laid with any pretty woman he could find. He is an IITian all together but still is very stubborn in his attitude.
Garima is a nice girl but not a fashion girl at all, doesn't even tries to get properly dressed; loves the emptiness. She helps everyone around in need but is a really pampered young woman.

All 4 are highly brainy, toppers of their respective institutes and meet each-other when their brain makes them land in a very prominently paying Investor banking organization Silverman Finance, Hyderabad.

And then the major change in their life happens...! Turning everything upside down; offering a tremendous package of Rs 30 lacs per annum.

Talking about my personal perspective of this amazing love story, I would like to say that it is overall an over-whelming work, comprising of love, hate, faith, jealousy, situations of jeopardy, being drunk, racing jets and what not!
It really is an art of ecstasy altogether. The emotions which flow along through its pages and the sentiments rolling upon the pages say it all aloud. It’s not about finding love in life, but rather it’s about finding peace in love and the deadly influence of money having the capability of over-writing the various goddamned decisions for life.


They simply think that now everything's gonna change for good, but does it really happen, or it deteriorates their life even further?

Read the book to get to know about it!
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58 reviews2 followers
May 19, 2020
LOVE CAN WAIT, BUT DIAMONDS CAN'T: SHRUTI SAID TO HIM.
Are you listening wrong, of course not. I tell you the exact what I want to be.
Is not it looks like ungrateful for soul or greedy for money? Exactly it is just like that. insensitive, greedy someone.

Abhijeet, Sourav, Shruti and Garima. A cubicle journey of four different people's from different regions get together at the same place with the same kind of excitement.
The four are meet each other in the Silverman company on their training for getting a job there. They all have different life's from different backgrounds and the only thing which is common in them is getting the job.
💫For Abhijeet, this job is the only way to become rich.
💫For Shruti, this is the only way to get rid of from her cruel family.
💫Sourav, from a wealthy family, but he is also a nerd so he gets the job only for him.
💫Garima, the job only meant to get over from her past.

They all lived in Hyderabad. their life lends them so much to endure. Not only in the job but from the training too. they worked continuously for 16 hrs a day without complaining or resign . after all this job pays them to much to live a lavish life for a lifetime.
With the change of time things, changes for them .they all are getting busy with their works and hardly get a check on his or her friends who meant a family for them.they get to know some wrong about Shruti and them broke up with her. She gets into drinks and filled with loneliness.passing time realize them that they were wrong about her and apologize. The reunion with her where they get to know that Shruti fine a guy, Rishab, India's second-richest man .as they are in relationships with their respective ones when Shruti get one they feel ultimately happy for her and make a happily ever afterlife.
💫 But is that fair to love A person, when you get to know that he or she is faithfully rich?
Answer to that is up to you .and I don't give any more spoilers here.
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11 reviews
March 31, 2024
Title: Now that you're rich, Let's fall in love..
Genre: Contemporary romance + Corporate life
By: @durjoydatta
Rating: ⭐⭐2.1/5

Plot: The book's storyline is quite complex with four characters namely Abhijit, Shruti, Saurav and Garima who together seek job away from their life of boredom and unwanted relationships, at an investment banking multinational company in order to earn loads of money, loads of cash to live a life the way they want. All of them are hired on a high salary income by the interviewers until the moment they step into their respective jobs and realize that they were all robbed off their ambition to get the money they deserve. The investment company gives them a shocking tantrum on the first day of their joining by announcing that only half of the employees out of the complete group will stay in the company while the rest will be fired after the tenure of the internship, amidst which they will receive only 1/3 part of the promised salary upon the agreement received by the four of them.

Abhijeet, being the brightest student of all, cared no more about the job and sought around friendship with much more bigger trouble named Saurav, who is an ITTian and already pockets a heavy bank balance in his life. On the other hand, Garima, though rich, was suffering through the pain of her terrible past which made her a complete failure, while, the most different character, Shruti comes from an Orthodox family who wants to marry her off without her consent, forcing her to escape hometown and seek shelter in the city of Hyderabad for survival and her dream life, her dream life with a rich man!

Things I liked:
❤Engagement of the characters was good and could be felt while reading

Things I disliked:
❤The message the book somewhere gives in the end is not convenient and that is what I feel
❤The book is just about cheesy lines most of the time and the theme lacks in the middle of the somewhere
❤Durjoy was once my favorite author but I don't think I like his work anymore reading the same repetitive romance which lacks meaning and worthwhile reading time

Lastly, I wish the book had a better end.

#vidaemocionaldeakshat
Profile Image for Shalini.
54 reviews
May 19, 2025
💵🩶 Now that you're rich...let's fall in love by Durjoy Datta
💵🩶BOOK REVIEW:-
I started re-reading this book because a web series, "Pyaar, Paisa, Profit", based on this book has just released on Amazon MX Player and as a reader I'm obliged to constantly compare the both 🤭 The book was pretty fun and re-reading it made me realise how little I remembered about it. The book has that cutthroat, hustling and competition sort of vibe to it which makes it really gripping and the second half for me was just UNPUTDOWNABLE! ❤️‍🔥
💵🩶BOOK DESCRIPTION:-
For Abhijeet, Saurav, Shruti, Garima life is about to change. They have the most sought-after jobs in the country that will pay for designer clothes, shoes, watches, holidays in foreign locations . . .
But then, is life ever perfect?
Things begin to get tough from day one as they begin to work under bosses who are straight out of hell.
Things go from bad to worse as they fall in love and take all the wrong decisions. Then when recession affects the company, their bond begins to strain. Till one day, the very reason that got them together, tears them apart: Money.
Profile Image for Kanwarpal Singh.
973 reviews9 followers
September 30, 2025
This novel show that things changes everyday in our life from person to person and life kept moving on , the story of 4 individual different with different walks of life come to work in a corporate in Hyderabad facing problem and difficulties to manage time for themselves and situation moving going on in their life, pressure to maintain a social life and changes and soon they become part of each other family away from there families and love happens and their friendship stand tall everytime. Our main protagonist Shruti whose life change when she met a guy who is the one of the richest man of the city and he proposed marriage to her, she wanted to move away from her past and want her brother to live a happy life and want him to move away from family who is greedy enough to life just on what she earn so that she can have some piece in life and in that she loses her love because she came to understand being poor is crime and money can solve her problem so she moved on with it and choose money over love for her life problem to set get settled.
Profile Image for ANGEL VANYA.
78 reviews1 follower
September 7, 2025
Now that you're rich, let's fall in love is a different kind of a novel where four nerds, starts working together, all of them bond because of their respective traumas like failed relationships with cheating partners, family pressure for marriage and financial struggles and then when all four of them starts to work together, their friendship blossoms beautifully. Their life is somewhat happy because of each other and that's where the problems start, relationships, feelings and financial issues and workplace drama starts and tests the friendship. With so much ugly drama involved, they think that their friendship is damaged beyond repair but friendship has the power to overcome almost every struggle thrown at it, right? So do these four friends become inseperable or done for good? And do they get their happily ever after?
4/5 and a maybe for me
Profile Image for Jigar Patel.
1 review12 followers
September 25, 2017
I feel that , this book shows reality of corporate world and the value of money, Job.
there are four friends , meet at silvermanfinance from different collages and they have their past.
after there is story of great friendship, love ,struggle,Hard work ,piled by workload from respective boss , fight, hate ,after all that drama finally the story has happy end.shruti has finally found rich man and married him.saurav got Riya at silverfinance. Garima and Abhijeet went Dilhi and managed Garima 's father business.
superb quotes in this book I like more," Love can wait , but not the diamond Ring",
"love is strange".
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18 reviews
December 21, 2023
I was INFURIATED at first while reading this book. the choice of words used by the author were not very pleasant to read - "Make her taller and older, she would look like a porn star" , While describing a male character -"Girls found it cute. But girls find every dog cute"


Gradually, the writing improved. i started enjoying different storylines of different characters.


Again, towards the end it felt like more of a fantasy, but again, thats why we read right. to imagine happy events that may or may not happen! to get lost in a world of our own!


i would recommend it, even for new readers. its good to pass your time.
18 reviews
April 1, 2020
The story of the 4 main characters - Abhijeet, Garima, Saurav and Shruti - has been described in detail. It kind of sets the background of the book. All the characters have been given due importance. The variation of what they have and what they want from life seems quite clear. Whilst the plot of story is too superficial with each character getting what they wanted from life in the end; it is hard to draw out the moral of the story. Overall, a good book to read keeping in mind the non-fiction side of it.
Profile Image for Yukti Joshi.
22 reviews24 followers
January 6, 2021
Picked this book when I was 14, never finished so thought I’d go back. The writing, the story, the characters are caricatures and the writing is really, really bad in this one. I never want to read him describing people again. Why are all women heartbroken and dumbstruck by love? Why do all men go from obsessing over women to calling them sluts in literally a single line?!?
I wouldn’t have finished this if I hadn’t bought this. Time to go curse my younger self. He has a few better books out there but please don’t pick this up.
7 reviews
February 2, 2021
Love makes the world go round. But money buys the tickets...
Now that you're rich,let's fall in love is a young
adult novel about lives of four people with heart breaks and sad stories and how they make up their lives entering the corporate world,face troubles,fall in love .
It's a witty and funny read , connected to heart at some plots and like too much at the same time. It suggests about the youth aspirations ,deeds, corporate world and how modern relationships work.
I enjoyed and loved reading it!
Can give it a try..
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