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DURJOY DATTA

Durjoy Datta is an Indian author and screenwriter known for his coffee-table novels about the romantic life of young Indians.

Durjoy Datta was born in New Delhi, and completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. 

His first book - 'Of Course I Love You . . .' was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels 'Now That You're Rich . . .'; 'She Broke Up, I Didn't! . . .'; 'Oh Yes, I'm Single! . . .'; 'You Were My Crush . . .'; 'If It's Not Forever . . .'; 'Till the Last Breath . . .'; 'Someone Like You'; 'Hold My Hand'; 'When Only Love Remains'; 'World's Best Boyfriend'; 'Our Impossible Love'; 'The Girl of My Dreams'; and 'The Boy Who Loved' - have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India.

Durjoy also has to his credit nine television shows and has written over a thousand episodes for television. Durjoy lives in Mumbai.

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DURJOY DATTA's NOTABLE WORKS

Of Course I Love You ..! Till I Find Someone Better [2008]
(co-author Maanvi Ahuja)

Of Course I Love You is set in Delhi, 2006–2008, and revolves around nightclubs, colleges, relationships and friendships. Debashish "Deb" Roy is a college student who has dated and bedded many girls. He is happy until he forms a relationship with a female named Avantika. Deb's life worsens as his relationship with Avantika deepens. Avantika is forced to listen to her spiritual "Guru" to leave Deb, ultimately dumping him. Deb is kicked out of his college placements and gets a job in a government office where his father used to work. He befriends the office genius Amit, who is inexperienced with girls, and waits for his life to improve and for Avantika to return to him. 

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She Broke Up, I Didn’t! .... I just kissed someone else! [2010] 

She Broke Up, I Didn’t! is a novel that takes a nasty dig at relationships, love and fidelity and what it means today. It tackles some of the very uncomfortable questions and tries to put those into perspective.
It’s the story of Deb and Avantika, , two management students whose pretty as a picture life is is thrown off track, after Deb, drunk as a pig goes ahead and kisses a classmate. To forgive is divine? Especially when it is just a mistake!
What will Avantika do? Will she be able to forgive him?
And what if Deb does it again? What if Avantika goes ahead and does the same?
This is the story of a group of friends who battle the questions of infidelity, loyalty and love as they step out of their colleges.
Is lust different from love? Are girls more tolerant?
What would hurt you more?
Your partner writing a love song for someone else? Or sleeping with someone else?
Is the answer any different for the two sexes?

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Ohh Yes I Am Single...!: And So Is My Girlfriend
(co-author Neeti Rustagi) [2010]

Ohh Yes, I'm Single! and so is My Girlfriend! The light-hearted tale of a geek who is constantly in and out of love Durjoy is a young romantic, who tells everyone every last detail of his in numerous love stories. Every failed relationship disappoints him even more and his anger and disappointment increase as he continues to fail. Dumped at breakfast and in love again by brunch, Durjoy seems to be unable to find the girl who will understand him. Who did he really love, he begins to think: was it maybe even the first girl he ever kissed? Was any of it real and has he already passed by his perfect one? Seeing every fling as a possible girlfriend, he persists in trying to find The One. Is this a vicious cycle or the purest of quests? And what will become of poor Durjoy?

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You Were My Crush!...till you said you love me! [2011]
(co-author Orvana Ghai) 

“What do you do when the person you love will forever be someone else’s?”

On the face of things, Benoy’s life is perfect. He drives a Bentley, lives alone in a big house and has all the riches  can only imagine. To people around him, he is a spoilt – a rich brat, the quintessential college-stud and a heartbreaker – but is he, really?

Who is the real Benoy?

This story is about him picking up the pieces of his life as struggles to come to terms with his mother’s untimely death, and a strained relationship with his father, whom hasn’t seen much of.

A big car. A big house. Does it solve anything? Why is that despite having everything, he has nothing?

This book is a true story based on the author’s brother – Benoy Roy.

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Now That You're Rich . . . Let's Fall In Love [2011]

(Co-authored by Maanvi Ahuja)

What would you do if you are twenty one and earn three lakhs a month?

Abhi. Saurav. Shruti. Garima.

Life is about to change for these four as they are chosen to work for the only job in the country that would pay for Tissot watches, Jimmy Choo pumps, Platinum jewelery, maybe a new car…and still leave behind enough for a cruise in the Caribbean.

Things are fine as they get along but...

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.

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Till The Last Breath [2012]

On a lazy Sunday morning, two young people are wheeled into Room No. 509 of GKL super specialty hospital.

A brilliant nineteen year old medical student, suffering from an incurable, fatal disease hurtling her at a slow, painful, uncertain death.

A wasteful twenty five year old drug addict, with no appreciation of life, with every organ system of his body slowly shutting down.

Two prodigious doctors, fighting their own demons from the past, try to keep these two patients alive, putting their medical licenses at risk.

Death looms in the tiny 12X13 foot room as they fight for every breath of their lives, even as the doctors put them through unapproved experimental treatments to prolong their lives.

How will the last month of pain and struggle change their lives? How will it transform the doctors who work steadfastly to make them live a little longer?

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