One Night @ The Call Center by Chetan Bhagat

ONE NIGHT @THE CALL CENTER

                             -Chetan Bhagat

                   One night at Call center is written by Chetan Bhagat who is one of the most famous novelists in modern era. He wrote four more novels those are five point someone. One Night at Call center is the novel based on the life of the people of middle class family in India and their problems. IT is a story of emotions which shows pity, love, sorrow and ambitions. It denotes to the many aspects of human life. It deals with the expectations of people and the frustration after not fulfilling.

                    In this novel Bhagat talks about the call center where there are six character are working, Gurgaon, Haryana in the novel.  The characters of the novel are: Shyam, Varun, Esha, Priyanka, Radhika and Military Uncle. They are working in call center which is “Connexion call center”. All the character faces the problems in their family. One night they get call from God and God said them to listen your inner voice of your heart. All the characters inspired by the call of God.

               The story takes a dramatic and decisive turn through a literal Deux ex Machine, when the character receives a phone call from God

                   The story of one night at call center moves around six people. Three are male and three and females. All of them are working in a same group in a call center .They all are different from each other but they have a similarity in them that all of them are fed up with their lives and their lives are very messy.
This story is about a night at call center which changes the lives of all the people, not lives actually it changes their way of thinking .It changes their way to deal with the problems of their lives .
                   Shyam Mehra is the narrator of the story and is the main character of the story. He is very much confused in his life. He is a very simple boy. He loves Priyanka who has got engaged with Ganesh an NRI boy. He is sad because of it and second thing is that he thinks that his boss has cheated him and Varun
Varun ( Vroom ) is a friend of Shyam and does not want to do the job but he wants to keep up his standard up so he has to work there . Priyanka’s mother wants her to marry Ganesh next month but she does not want. She still feels something for Shaym. Later on Shaym tell her about the baldness of Ganesh who hid this from her. Esha Singh or Eliza is an ambitious girl who wants to become a model. She runs away from house and join call center in order to fulfill her dreams .She does many compromises. But she is bluffed by a man who said her that she is not suitable for being a model.
                   Her life represents the ambitious middle class youth who are running after blind race of materialism. Radhika call name is Regime Jones. She is married. She is not happy with her mother in law. She loves her husband a lot but when she comes to know that on a radio program he selects another girl over her. She gets very upset.
                   Military uncle is the oldest person in call center but he is living a lonely life. His heart cries for his grandson but he gets more upset when his grandson asks him to stop mailing him.
                   In this way everyone in the call center is fed up with his life but one day at night everyone receives a call from God. God motivates everyone and tells the way to handle their problems. He tells them not to get frustrated by problems. He suggests them to face the problems and to do 100% of efforts. After receiving the call the life of everyone is changed. Everyone starts facing the problem with full of courage and finds out the best solution.
                   Shaym finally gets his love. Priyanka also refuses to get marry to Ganesh who hid his baldness. Esha starts working for NGOs. Military Uncle also gets his family back at the end.
In this way the story of one night at call center is based on facts and fiction. The characters are taken from the real life. They represent the problem of middle class Indians. The story denotes the six different problems of six different people.                         Priyanka represent the girl in India who has to follow the decision of parents at the matter of marriage. God gives the solution to it and tells her to believe in herself. Military uncle also represent old people who are ditched by the family and it is a common and a serious problem in society. At the end he also gets his family back.
                   The story of the novel is very simple but the call from God makes it interesting. All the characters in it are young except military uncle. The language of the novel is very simple and that is the only reason of its popularity .