A Big Shot by Piyush Sharma

A Big $hot is the dramatic rise-and-fall-and-rise story of Ayush Daruwala, a brilliant but misunderstood middle-class nerd who begins life as a promising medical student and ends up becoming an unlikely financial prodigy.

Born to be a paediatrician, Ayush’s life takes a sharp turn after a series of shocking events inside his medical college—manipulation, jealousy, secret enemies, institutional betrayal, and controversies that push him into isolation and repeated failures. What seems like ordinary academic setbacks soon spirals into a covert national-level scandal, where Ayush becomes the invisible center of a massive financial game orchestrated by a powerful “predator” operating through mind-games, corruption, and public manipulation.

As Ayush survives detentions, defamation, mental-health struggles, toxic environments, and a sinister scheme aimed to break him, he unexpectedly transforms. His outsider perspective, solitude, sharp observation, and resilience become his secret weapons. From being labelled a troubled, irresponsible intern, Ayush evolves into a rare breed of survivor, quietly absorbing lessons from adversity.

Defamed on one side, secretly celebrated on the other, Ayush studies the chaos around him and ultimately rises from the ashes—emerging as a top 1% investor, a shocking “Dalal Street Underdog” who outplays the very forces that tried to destroy him.

This is the gripping journey of a misunderstood genius who walks through fire, survives a national conspiracy, and turns tragedy into triumph—a story of resilience, intelligence, and an extraordinary leap from middle-class obscurity to elite-class success.