Review: Daredreamers: A Start-up of Superheroes

Daredreamers: A Start-up of Superheroes by Kartik Sharma
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A startup is defined by Wikipedia as:
“A startup or start-up is an entrepreneurial venture which is a newly emerged business venture that aims to meet a marketplace need, want or problem by developing a viable business model around products, services, processes or platforms. A startup is a new business venture designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model.
Start-ups do have high rates of failure, but the minority that have gone on to be successful includes companies that have become large and influential.”

There are many tech startups in all over the world. But a startup of super heroes? This is certainly a novel idea. The book is divided into parts and action starts from part 3.

In part one RASIQ joins an investment form in Mumbai. There he works 24x7 without breaks. His girlfriend of college days leaves him because he cannot devote time to her. on top of it he has to deal with office politics. Then when he breaks down he decides to resign and do something of his own. He comes back to Delhi and assembles a team. These superheroes Nick: a crazy inventor; Halka: an inhumanly strong man; Arjun: a champion shooter; Natasha: a Bollywood stunt-double; Dr. Vyom, a medical Sherlock Holmes. They want to provide safety and rescue solutions to companies in emergency situations. There is Rakeysh Aurora and Narad Money which are threatened by DareDreamers. They try to bring them down by any means possible.

The story is nice but it moves at a very slow pace. In First part there is no superhero but only Rasiq and the story is very cliched of a bored corporate employee. There is gradual build up of superheroes but it is merged with startup story. These two does not gel very well. There is a forced attempt to merge “Avengers” with “Silicon Valley”. In the end it does not do justice to any of these. The editing should have been tighter and story could have moved at a brisk pace. 3/ 5 stars.



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