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We have studies Chetan Bhagat's ONE NIGHT AT THE CALL CENTRE novel in our last (4rth) Semester of PG , this novel considered as one of the best novels of The New Literature . Bhagat is famous for writing for youth . He is one of the bestseller authors of India. Many of his novels are adopted in Bollywood movies.
Chetan Bhagat does not claim to be anything but an entertaining, accessible writer who writes for the young and aspirational. He has become astoundingly successful at it. He also has a keen sense of marketing and a publishing house that appreciates it, and both have done very well by it. We writers (and publishers) would do well to acknowledge this complete lack of pretension; and display of professionalism.
- Sudeep Chakravarti, author of the non-fiction work Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country, and two novels, Tin Fish and Once Upon a Time in Aparanta.
ONE NIGHT AT THE CALL CENTERE :
Major Characters of the novel :
Shyam Mehra : Sam Marcy , Job + Money + Love + Career
Varun Malhotra (Vroom) : Victor Mell : Money + Entrepreneurship
Radhika Jha : Regina Jones : Marriage + Freedom + Divorce
Esha Singh : Eliza Singer : Money + Career + Harassments
Priyanka : Prensky : Family Relations + Love + Career
Military Uncle : Age Gap + Misunderstanding
Bakshi ( Boss ) : Cunning + Bossy + Boot Licker + Money
One Night At The Call Centre is a novel which deals about the issues of Modern Indian Youth . The story revolves around six major Characters working in a call center in Gurgano and their problems and insecurities, their family relations , exploitation in private sectors , sexual harassments in fashion world and their anxieties. It takes place during one night, during which all of the leading characters confront some aspect of themselves or their lives they would like to change. The story uses a literal deus ex machina, when the characters receive a phone call from God.
Shaym Mehra is having some relationship issues with his girlfriend Priyanka and at home among his relatives he is considered as as a BLACK SHEEP. While answering God's call his inner voice was :
This will sound stupid , but i want to take a shot at my own business. i had this idea, if Vroom and i collaborate , we can set up a small web design company. That is all. But it may never work , because most of the things i do never works , but then ...one day i would like to be worthy of someone like her - someone intelligent , witty, sensitive and fun, someone who can seamlessly merge friendship with love . and yes , one day i want to be successful too.
The another character is Varun Malhotra , he is mostly called Vroom, he is not happy and now then readers find him criticizing the Americans , he wants to do something for his own company. While answering God's call Vroom's inner voice was like :
"That i should not have taken up a job just for money . Call centers pay more , but only because the exchange rate is in the favor of Americans . They toss their loose change at us . it seems like a lot in rupees. But jobs that pay less could be better . There could be jobs that define me , Make me learn of help my country . I justified it by saying money is progress. But it is not true .Progress is building , something lasting for the future ."
Radhika was trying her hard to maintain the balance between her work and taking care of her Mother in law . She was cheated by her husband also, in a way she was just tying to please everyone around her , her freedom , individual choices ,happiness all she sacrificed for her mother in law and husband .while While answering God's call her inner voice was like :
"I want to be myself again, just like i was before marriage , when I was with my parents .I want to divorce Anuj. I don't want to ever look at my mother - in law's face again. To do this , i have to accept that i made a wrong decision when I married Anuj."
Esha wanted to be a model but because of his one inch small Hight was riddle and she was cheated buy an agent and became the victim of casting couch. She just wanted to achieve her goals and while answering God's call her inner voice was :
"I want my parents to love me again. I do not want to become a dumb model. I am sure i can find a better use for my looks, if they are worth anything. Any career that makes you compromise on your morals , or judge you because you are not an inch taller is not worth it ".
Priyanka was an intelligent girl who was in love with Shyam and just because of the happiness of her mother she chooses to marry Ganesh .While answering God's call , her inner voice was :
" I want my mother to be happy. But i can not kill myself for it .My mother needs to realize a family is a great support to have , but ultimately , she is responsible for her own happiness . My focus should be on my own life and what I want ".
Military Uncle is a retired army man who leaves alone because of age gap , he was unable to understand his daughter in law and leaves alone ,while answering God's call his inner voice was :
" I want to be with my son and my grandson. I miss them every moment. Two years ago , i used to live with them . But my daughter in law did this things i didn't like - she went for parties , got a job when I wanted her to stay at home ....i fought with them and moved out. But I was wrong , It is their life , and i have no right to judge them by my outdated values .And I need to get rid of my inflated ego and go to the US to see them and talk it out ".
Short Animated Movie on ON@TCC :
Most people consider this novel deals with some serious issues like Globalization, Self - Help Book, Popular Literature. Even the narrative structure of this novel and the narrative structure of Life of Pi can be compared .
ON@TCC as Self - Help Book :
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help. Self-help books moved from a niche position to being a postmodern cultural phenomenon in the late twentieth century.
This book puts forward this paradoxical question as it looks at a world where the market for self-improvement products—books, audiotapes, and extreme makeovers—is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight. Rather than seeing narcissism at the root of the self-help craze, as others have contended, the author shows a nation relying on self-help culture for advice on how to cope in an increasingly volatile and competitive work world. The book reveals how makeover culture traps Americans in endless cycles of self-invention and overwork as they struggle to stay ahead of a rapidly restructuring economic order. A lucid treatment of the modern obsession with work and self-improvement, it will strike a chord with its acute diagnosis of the self-help trap and its sharp suggestions for how we can address the alienating conditions of modern work and family life. The main claim of the book is that while the self help culture promises liberation and self mastery , it actually propels its adherents into a cycle of endless work on the self, a process aptly captured under the heading of the " Belabored self ".
Comparative Study of Narrative Structure on ON@TCC and Life of Pi :
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