The film sucks while the book is awesome!!!. Review on The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

I started the book out of curiosity of the naive mind swayed by the coverage it received. Think I finished it in record time. Read it everywhere- in bed, at the dining table, in the bus, upon stairs and even at the loo. Dan Brown has successfully managed to create a strong sense of reality out of raw fiction and imagination. The excellent and awesomely crafty plot woven with extreme intelligence often transcends your logic from fictional subjection to a paranoia of reality. The book scored everywhere where the film failed. References to history and etymology were inserted at masterly ease and aplomb. Nowhere in the storytelling are you allowed to believe that any of what is being told could not happen in real. Mr. Brown has sure done a lot of homework and systematic research on the references he drew in the course of the plot. From the first page (which is the prelude to a cold blooded murder) to the last (which is an extension of the climax) the book never lets you go. Introduction to the characters are also done with perfection and at appropriate opportunities to allow enough continuum. The film appears trash when you see it after you have finished the book (I did only 2 hours after). But can't blame Ron Howard much- very tough to recreate the magic of a fine piece of fiction of this grade. He must have felt frustrated himself.

The plot involves an US Professor of Symbolism and a French lady Police Officer suddenly finding themselves in the midst of grave and apparently insurmountable quandary and at an apparent dead end. As the story progresses, a plot unfolds that reveals consequences of centuries old events and a wave of malice and greed that spread around continents. The climax is a fitting end to a gripping thriller (done slightly differently in the film though for reasons unknown) and in the process Mr. Brown had successfully held our infallible faith more than at stake. And that created all the censorboard fuss in our country, which was unnecessary.

A feast for the lovers of thriller and fiction. Can't tell about the more serious readers though.