Book Review: 'F?@k Knows' by Shailendra Singh | Mumbai Boss

Should you buy Shailendra Singh?s F?@k Knows?

F?@k no.

Here?s why:

Singh, one half of the infamous Singh brothers who run Percept, the media and communications firm with fingers in the music, sports and Bollywood businesses, is a hella of a spin man. He?s shaped more than one rough cut Bollywood star, given the country its largest EDM festival and been embroiled in his fair share of controversies, so he?s probably got a story or two to sell. Except having likely had a hand in causing murmurs of what was to come from his memoirs, he?s spun the biggest con of them all: this isn?t a juicy tell all with delicious dark secrets that, holy legit lawsuit, might cause certain stars to sweat and sue him for defamation. In fact the only pulses likely to race are those of school teachers who might scowl at the liberal usage of the word fuck, written here annoyingly enough as f?@k, and upon whose many applications the entire crux of this books rests.

It?s self help masqueraded as a memoir, with bits and bobs ham fistedly pulled from Singh?s favourite enlightenment authors, where The Power of Now, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and The Secret is spliced with Osho and Deepak Chopra and the word f?@k because well, fuck knows. Cavalier as Singh is about his tryst with fame and glitz, even he?s canny enough to know that when your entire career is built on maintaining relationships with the powers that be, it doesn?t pay to name names. Instead to give his readers some amount of bang for their vastly overpaid 195 bucks, Singh dispenses his remedies for living well. Create a fuck it list (?it just like a bucket list, but with a cooler name?), trust your gut, apply yourself, do what you love, channel your chi by saying chi
f?@k a lot, know who you want to be, do what you want, look after yourself and oh, don?t worry so much. Why?

Because ?Worrying is like riding a tiger. If you can stay on top of it, you will enjoy the ride. If you get off, the tiger will eat you.? If presented with this book, may we suggest you hope choose the latter option.

F?@k Knows by Shailendra Singh, Rupa, Rs195.?

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