Author’s Disclaimer: When I was a teenager, all my school boyfriends would scoff at their girlfriends for reading Mills & Boon (although secretly, many would scan a chapter or two to figure out how amorous they could get with them). We were macho boys, so we read James Hadley Chase. But I guess it’s a sign of ripening – the “I couldn’t give a damn what you think” strength that comes with old age – that today I can say, without a qualm, that I have enjoyed watching all three seasons of Emily in Paris .
It’s Mills & Boon raised to the exponential power of Netflix, but who cares, it’s terrific candy that my failing eyesight is happy to binge on. What follows is a fictional, satirical take on a purported Season Four, titled Emily in Ahmedabad! “Enthu” Patel is a hyper-successful Indian American native of New Jersey. Even he has forgotten his first name, given to him lovingly by his Gujarati parents.
As a bright, bouncy kid (is that when the pet name “Enthu” got stuck to him?), he went to the best school money could buy in Ahmedabad. Since he was petrified of joining his large family-owned diamond business, he booked a quick ticket to Boston, graduating summa cum laude at MIT and Harvard. Unsurprisingly, he launched a very coveted AI (artificial intelligence) company.
Enthu was f@#$&* (i.e., filthy) rich, and in love with Lily Collins.
Aa kone che? Who is this Lily Collins? If you were foolish enough to ask this question, you triggered an Enthu monologue,.