Fake Appeal
Fake Appeal | Blue Brothers, Book 1One viral clip. Four million views. A captain who's now the most disliked man in Indian cricket.Aarav Deshmukh was the calm one. The disciplined one. Until a heated dressing-room moment after a World Cup semi-final loss turned him into #CaptainColdBlood overnight. Months later, the boos haven't stopped, the sponsors are leaving, and the board has issued an ultimatum: fix your image, or lose the captaincy.Meher Kulkarni fixes reputations for a living. She doesn't do feelings, and she definitely doesn't date clients. But when every apology and charity photo-op fails, she proposes the one thing that might work: a fake relationship.The rules are simple. No real feelings. No public slip-ups. It ends when the season does.But Aarav's found family, the loud, chai-obsessed Blue Brothers, saw through the act in about five minutes. And pretending is getting harder when every look, every touch, and every "for the cameras" kiss starts to feel a little too real.Fake dating. Found family. A captain with a heart he's terrified to show.…



