Silicon Valley

Audible presents Silicon Valley, Idiots In Love, an Audible Original series by Chetan Bhagat. This modern romantic comedy follows two ambitious dreamers, GK and Sonia as they meet as students at India’s most prestigious university. For GK, whose intelligence is only outmatched by his charm, everything in life seems to come easy. Grades, friends, girls, the respect and admiration of everyone on campus… Sonia is the one thing in his life that he’s ever had to fight for and of course, GK falls madly in love with her from the moment they meet.

Sonia is fixated on her career. She’s come to the university to fulfill her parents’ wishes, and to avoid their guilt and threats, but what she wants more than anything is to be an actress. Sonia doesn’t entertain any distractions from that dream, and GK is definitely a distraction. She rehearses between classes. She takes acting classes when she should be sleeping. Despite all her efforts to avoid her feelings for GK, their friendship and flirtation grows until she finally lets down her guard.

The infatuation and high their first experience of love meets its heartbreaking fate, when Sonia is offered her big Bollywood break. GK encourages her to chase her dreams, knowing it will inevitably take her away from him. As Sonia’s stardom grows, and a heartbroken GK throws himself into a career that will turn him into one of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs, their lives take two distant paths.

An alumni fireside reunion, years later, brings them back together. Can two flames rekindle after so many years? And in this modern world where love often seems at odds with ambition, can two dreamers ever have it all?

Story by Chetan Bhagat

Adapted for Audible by Mayur Puri

Translated in Hindi by Pawan Upadhyay