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Title: Bhima

Subtitle: The Man in the Shadows

Author: Vikas Singh

Narrator: Sanjiv Jhaveri

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

I am half man, half superhuman. I am the mightiest warrior of my time. I have violated my dharma and murdered a man in cold blood.

I have, single-handed, wiped out a whole generation of my kinsmen.

I have committed acts of unspeakable brutality on the battlefield.

I have done it all for the love of one woman. A woman who loves my brother.

I am Bhima, the second Pandava. This is my story.

Possessed of amazing strength, fierce loyalty and great tenderness, Bhima as a character is almost always eclipsed by Yudhishtira and Arjuna. In spite of his many virtues, he is destined to be remembered as all brawn and biceps.

Now, in Vikas Singh's retelling of the Mahabharata, India's greatest epic is narrated through the eyes of a hero who has never got his due. A fascinating account of a fascinating character - his extraordinary courage, his obsessive love for Draupadi, his deeply conflicted emotions about his brother, Arjun - this stunning work, written in a racy, entertaining style, provides the definitive answer to the question: what was it like to be Bhima?

Members Reviews:

Bhima: A man in Shadows

Author Vikas Singh becomes the voice of Bhima, one of the Pandavas and airs his view of life. Author describes Bhima's feelings and passion for Draupadi who he feels does not reciprocate the feeling with similar intensity. Bhima feels that draupadi pines only for Arjun since the day of swayamvara till the great war and final journey towards heaven.

The story does not however highlight Bhima's virtues properly. Bhima's monologue about all events since his childhood make him look like a person who is constantly grumbling about nobody giving him credit, like a jealous person.

Author has reduced Bhima into a ordinary human-being who keeps bragging what all he did without help from Arjun. The passionate episodes in the story are distasteful and crude. Bhima was not a man in shadows. He being a half human was the most powerful and most of his exploits are famous.

The author has diluted the greatness of the legendary warrior. I am very disappointed with the book because I was expecting it to be more full of character instead it is more of a juicy racy story and good for readers who are not much into history and mythology kind of reading.