I Will Go with You (novel)

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I Will Go with You: The Flight of a Lifetime
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Author Priya Kumar
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
Subject afterlife, karma, mortality and spirituality
PublisherCognite — an Imprint of Embassy Books
Publication date
2015
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages232
ISBN 978-9383359660

I Will Go with You: The Flight of a Lifetime is a 2015 suspense thriller novel by Indian writer Priya Kumar. It is the fifth book written by Priya Kumar. The plot follows a pilot of the flight, who decides to commit suicide while on board. Instead of dying alone, he chooses to endanger the lives of 300 passengers of the flight and dies in mid-air along with them. The novel became bestseller, and was adapted into 2019 web television series The Final Call .

Contents

Publication

I Will Go with You was published by the Embassy Books. [1] It became bestseller. [2] [3] The book is dedicated to the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) which disappeared mysteriously in March 2014. [4]

Characters

The main characters are: [5]

Plot

The story centres around the passengers of a flight from Mumbai to Sydney whose lives are endangered after the pilot decides to commit suicide on board.

Theme

The novel deals with several themes including afterlife, karma, mortality and spirituality. [6] It raises several questions relating to life and death, and tries to answer it. [1]

Reception

Anuradha Shankar wrote in Complete Wellbeing magazine: "This is an intriguing story that combines the heavy questions of life, death and everything in between, in the form of a suspense thriller. The author intersperses the fictional narrative with bits of philosophical thought, making make us stop and think about the situation, and even helps us relate them to our own circumstances. In spite of this, the story doesn’t lose its momentum." Shankar termed the novel 'inspirational suspense.' [1] Huzan Tata of Verve magazine calls the novel an 'inspirational work' and a 'gripping read'. [6]

Adaptation

ZEE5 announced The Final Call , a web television series based on the novel in 2018. [7] Starring Arjun Rampal, Neeraj Kabi, Sakshi Tanwar‚ Anupriya Goenka, Javed Jaffrey, and Vipin Sharma, the series premiered in February 2019. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Shankar, Anuradha (2015-04-01). "I Will Go With You: The Flight Of A Lifetime By Priya Kumar". Complete Wellbeing . Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  2. ↑ "Priya Kumar's bestselling novel 'I Will Go With You' to be launched" . The New Nation. Dhaka. 12 Oct 2018. ProQuest   2118151738 – via ProQuest.
  3. ↑ "ZEE5 to launch web series on Priya Kumar's bestselling novel 'I Will Go With You'". Indian Television. 9 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Kumar, Priya (2015-04-01). "'When someone's a part of your journey, his problem is yours'". Rediff. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  5. ↑ Das, Sanchari (2020-07-17). "When Thriller Adopts Spirituality - I Will Go With You by Priya Kumar". Mith Books. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  6. 1 2 Tata, Huzan (2015-07-07). "Book Reviews: Of heartaches and dreams". Verve Magazine . Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  7. ↑ "Priya Kumar's novel 'I Will Go With You' to be adapted into a Zee5 web series". Scroll.in. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  8. ↑ Jain, Arushi (2019-04-14). "With success of The Final Call, I learnt content is king: Writer Priya Kumar". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2020-09-18.

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