I hear you – Nidhi Upadhay – Review

A simple lovable girl, an adorable father who has a scientific inclination, a geneticist husband who carries a disturbing past and most importantly a genetically modified advanced foetus with supernatural powers. With the combination of given characters, Nidhi crafts a beautiful storyline centred around Mahika and Shivam.

The story starts with Mahika falling for a charming and aspirational geneticist Shivam, whose presence and touch cast an endearing experience within her. She longed for Shivam’s presence and voice during the initial days when he was a bright research assistant to her father, prof. Mishra.  

The mutual attraction gets them married in the course of time and the couple shift to New Jersey to advance Shivam’s career prospects despite Mahika’s eagerness to stay close to her father. She undergoes a mixed emotion of the joy of experiencing a new place and the sadness of staying away from her father. As years pass by, Mahika begins to witness the rough side of Shivam and develops a love-hate relationship with him, the fact that she is also financially dependent makes her confidence shatter to pieces compounding her woes.

Though Shivam’s initial focus was only around artificially modifying the DNA of plants and bring out an advanced version. The play of events shifts when Mahika’s first impregnation turns out to be diagnosed with Down’s syndrome. Shivam was scared to rear a child with down’s syndrome while Mahika was hell bent on successfully delivering her first child despite the tough situations ahead. Her tantrums and stubborn arguments to save the child from abortion led Shivam into a flux. The pressure to identify a solution to cure the down syndrome in foetus makes him shift his focus towards human geneticist rather than expending his energy on plants, eventually leading him to a wealthy, cunning and deceitful Dr. Stevan.

As an impending delivery of a defective baby loomed large within her every passing day, the emotions reach a boiling point between Shivam and Mahika leading to a physical encounter on the edge of a staircase. Consequently, Mahika falls down the stairs and the first baby gets aborted due to heavy impact. The incident leaves Mahika emotionally drained and gets absorbed into a hollow desireless space.

With Dr. Steven’s entry, a perfectly conceivable Mahika is termed as naturally inconceivable with IVF being the only option. The ploy plays perfectly for Dr. Steven’s experiments which leads to the superhuman baby with a range of ability unknown to mankind, lovingly given a pen name as Rudra. When Mahika learns of the witchful scheme to take Rudra away for their personal gains, she is faced with an uphill task of fighting against her own husband and his mastermind, Dr. Stevan.

How does Rudra help his mother to escape the trap is the exciting part of the story, ofcourse with a unfathomable twist in the end.

Good read !