I almost never listen to music while I’m actually drafting, but creating a playlist and listening to it on repeat is a critical part of my brainstorming process. I want to feel what the characters are going through and to me, music is the best way that this can happen. Here are five songs that you can find on the Marriage & Masti playlist.
You’re On Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift.
The Midnights album came out the year that Dating Dr. Dil was published. I already knew that Veera and Deepak were going to be friends to lovers, but I didn’t know which direction I wanted to take their story until I heard this song. There is a lyric that says, ‘I waited patiently, he’s going to notice me, it’s okay, we’re the best of friends, anyway.’ That was the lyric that inspired Veera’s painful feelings that she harbors through the first two books.
I Will Possess Your Heart by Death Cab for Cutie.
There is an eight-minute version of this song and I’ve been obsessed with the music video for it since it came out in 2008. The video is available online and I urge everyone to go watch it. That music video was the reason why I wanted Veera to run away for eight months at the start of the novel. In her mind, distance was going to help her find herself again.
Fuck Up the Friendship by Leah Kate.
I feel like this song is so sexy and it really captures the moment where friends have to make that move where there is absolutely no turning back. Where they transform from friends to lovers. The tension is just as intense (IMO) between Veera and Deepak, too!
Raat Akeli Hai from the movie Jewel Thief. This is such an old Bollywood song, but it’s considered classic seduction music in Bollywood even though Asha Bhosle is belting high notes right in the middle of the chorus. In Marriage and Masti, Deepak and Veera have to stay over his parents’ house, and Deepak’s mother happens to put this song on the stereo in the bedroom they share. Because obvi, she wants grandbabies now.
MARRIAGE & MASTI by Nisha Sharma
If Shakespeare Were an Auntie #3
The third and final installment in Nisha Sharma’s beloved Shakespeare-inspired rom-com trilogy—an ode to Twelfth Night—is the perfect friends to lovers romp featuring an accidental wedding, meddling families, and plenty of sizzling chemistry.
Veera Mathur has been through a lot in the past year. Both of her friends found soul mates, the man she fell in love with got engaged to another woman, and her father fired her before selling the family company. When her twin sister, Sana, tells her there is no way of getting her old life back, Veera feels lost at sea: a single, unemployed mess with a bad tattoo and tons of talent, but nowhere to go.
Deepak Datta hasn’t had the best luck either. To secure enough board votes for the CEO position at his family’s company, Illyria Media, he’s ready to marry board member and famous beauty influencer, Olivia Gupta. That is until he wakes up to a get ready with me video announcing their separation. Despite his immediate relief, Deepak needs to do something fast to repair his image.
After a series of convenient mishaps bring them together again—including a literal shipwreck, way too many drinks, and a sunset elopement on the beach—Deepak and Veera realize their accidental wedding might be the solution to their career aspirations. Together, they plot against the very company that ruined their lives in the first place.
As they try to convince the world their friendship was a ruse for romance they’ve felt all along, the line between fake and real begins to blur. Now Veera and Deepak must ask themselves the terrifying question that has haunted them since the first time they met: will love ruin everything?
With her signature humor and heartfelt storytelling, Nisha Sharma writes a messy, spicy romance about identity, family honor, and love. In Marriage & Masti, readers are sure to love the highly anticipated finale of this beloved trilogy.
Romance Multicultural | Romance Comedy [Avon, On Sale: August 27, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780063001183 / eISBN: 9780063001190]
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About Nisha Sharma
Nisha Sharma is the author of the YA novel My So-Called Bollywood Life, and the adult contemporary romance The Takeover Effect. Her writing has been praised in NPR, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Buzzfeed, Hypable and more. Nisha credits her father for her multiple graduate degrees, and her mother for her love of Shah Rukh Khan and Jane Austen. She lives in New Jersey with her Alaskan husband, her cat Lizzie Bennett and her dog Nancey Drew.
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