Laid in India: Eight Weeks with Bombay's #1 Pickup Artist

For a guy, attraction is simple, says Sid. It s like a switch. You see a hot girl, you want to have sex with her . . . For a girl, things are more complicated, fingertips glued together for a few seconds of emphasis looks are just one switch of six, maybe seven. If you can flick all those switches, she will feel a compelling attraction to you. It s evolutionarily hardwired. Meet Siddharth Malhotra, selfappointed Number One Pick-up Artist in India, once a dork in a Tier-2 town in Andhra Pradesh who has never known the touch of a woman. He can now get just about any woman, as he boasts. The trick? A secret move only he knows and an urban encyclopedia of psychological know-how targeted at the fairer sex. Trailing him disbelievingly is a Canadian journalist, drawn to this curious character no Ranveer Singh, but no Shakti Kapoor either . As he watches Sid prove his game bar after bar in Bandra, we discover a frightening yet compelling substrata of Indian pick-up artists. The story that follows is that of young urban India today, guided by Tinder and TrulyMadlyDeeply as well as the all-seeing Indian mother and equally ubiquitous societal pressure. Hilarious, acute and full of uncanny insight on modern-day dating, Laid in India reads as real as a pub brawl and punches just as hard.