Chetan Bhagat’s : One night@ the

call center

Index• Introduction

• Key Facts

• Character Analysis

• Plot Overview

• Themes

• Symbols

• Bibliography Records

Chetan Bhagat Chetan Bhagat is an

Indian Author, Columnist, Screenwriter and Speaker..

He was born on 22 April 1974.

Chetan Bhagat is one of the most popular authors in the fiction category in recent times in India.

He is very well known author and he is the author of bestselling novels.

He was born on 22 April 1974.

Famous collections of his works are..

Famous collections of his works are..

1. Five Point Someone (2004)

2. One Night @ the Call Center (2005)

3. The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008),

4. 2 States (2009),

5. Revolution 2020 (2011),

6. What Young India Wants (2012) and

7. Half Girlfriend (2014).

Key Facts

• Full title · One Night @ the Call Center

• Author · Chetan Bhagat

• Type of work · Novel

• Genre · Fiction

• Language · English

• Date of first publication · October 2005

• Publisher · Rupa & Co

• Narrator · Shyam who narrates the whole story. First Person Narration - through Shyam’s perspective which seems to be author’s perspective also.

• Point of view · The narrator speaks in third person though occasionally he speaks in first person and voices his thoughts and feelings

• Tone · Straightforward and mysterious • Tense · Past, and present• Setting (time) · 21st century• Setting (place) · Gurgaon, Haryana.• Protagonist · Shyam and Vroom• Major conflict · When Shyam and Vroom

were cheated by Bakshi, Priyanka was cheated by Ganesh and almost all other characters were cheated by one-another

• Rising action · Shyam recalls his memory by hearing the words related with his past relationship with Priyanka

• Climax · When God interferes in the matter of all the major characters.

• Falling action · When all the major characters changed their mind and tried to hear their inner call.

• Themes · cognizance, Nationalism, call from the God

• Motifs ·Call

• Symbols · God, knitting the scarf, cigarette

• Foreshadowing · The breakdown of the connection in call center suggests the coming conflict in the characters’ lives.

Characteristics in The One Night at the Call

Center

Characters

“ The mental and moral qualities-individual. “

Personality, Nature, Disposition, Temperament, Temper, Mentality, Turn of mind, Psychology, Psyche, Constitution, Make-up, Make, Stamp, Mould, Cast and all..

“A person in a novel, play, or film..” Persona, Person, Role, Part, Dramatis

Personae

Characters

Esha

Shyam

VarunPriyanka

Radhika

Shyam Mehra

Shyam, The narrator and the most important character of the book..

Hero of the book alongwith his close friend Vroom.

The separated family life of the retired Military Person.

Individual fighting to get peace. He is a person who lacks self-

confidence.

Priyanka

An intelligent and a practical girl..

Who is too pre-occupied with her mother who was an extremely important person to her.

Compromise – Love

She had decided to break up with her boyfriend Shyam and marry NRI Ganesh.

Varun Malhotra (Vroom)

Who loves speed and wheels.. He is the most carefree person in the

book.He stays with his mother. He has a soft corner for his colleague

Esha. Vroom is the one who saves “Connextions”

call center from a major problem using his skills.

Starts his own web based company.

Esha Singh

Who wants to become a model.

Struggle

She was pretty and had been struggling quite hard to get modelling assignments.

Guilt

She decides to give up her dream to become a model and continued to work at the call center.

Radhika Jha

Hard work..

She had been working very hard to mange her house and work.

Stays with her husband and in-laws.

She had married her husband against her parents.

Divorce.. Frustration.. Quits..

Military Uncle

Loneliness Live alone He works at the call center to earn

some extra money apart from the pension that he gets.

He had some misunderstanding with his Son and daughter-in-law but in the end he realizes his mistake and decides to apologize and go back to them..

Hence the book ‘One night at the call centre in one way or the other relates to every human being..

Who is so busy in the worldly pleasures that he doesn’t have time to think about himself on his own.

He looks for the solution of his problems outside whereas the truth is that it lies within himself.

Summary

• One Night @ the Call Center is written by Chetan Bhagat who is one of the most famous novelist of the modern era.

• published in 2005• The novel focuses on the six employees

who working in the Connexions call center in Gurgaon Haryana

• It takes place during the span of one night, in which all of the leading characters confront some aspect of themselves or their lives they would like to change

• The story takes a dramatic and decisive turn through a literal deus ex machina, when the characters get a phone call from God

• The story begins with the train journey Kanpur to Delhi

• The beginning line of the novel is –“The night train ride from Kanpur to Delhi was

the most memorable journey of my life”• In this journey writer meets to one

beautiful girl. They talk to each other at that time the girl offers a story in one condition that he has to make it his second book

• The novel is about one night at the call center in which there are six employees who are working over there

• There are six characters in the novel they are, Priyanka, Shyam, Military uncle, Radhika, Esha, Vroom

• 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, narrator and protagonist of the novel. He is very much confused in his life. He is very simple boy and loves priyanka, who has got engaged with Ganesh Gupta, an NRI boy

• Shyam is upset because Priyanka’s engagement with Ganesh 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 Shyam . Later on Shyam 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

• Esha’s life represents the ambitious middle class youth who are running after blind race of materialism

• Radhika’s call name is Regima Jones

• 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 an 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 who works in the call center they fed up with their life but one night everyone receives a call from God

• God motivates everyone and tells the way to handle their problems

• He tell them not to get frustrated by problems

• 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

• At the end of the novel Shyam finally gets his love, Priyanka and she also refuses to get marry to Ganesh who hide 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 • These characters represents 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 the novel are young except military uncle

• The language of the novel is very simple and very easy to understand this novel represent the youth of the India and suffering of their lives

Theme

Theme of One Night @Call center

• Cognizance

• Nationalism

• Deus ex Machina

• Human Relations, Love , Sex, and Marriage

Cognizance

• Self-defeating nature of laming, complaining, not take responsibility.

• Inferiority complex

• Radhika’s condition

• Vroom wants to open own company

• Valuable life lessons

Nationalism• Call to alarm to India• Politicians• “I should not have taken up a job just for

money” – Vroom• Priyanka reject Mr. Microsoft • Dead weight of corporate life• Radhika divorce cheating husband• Shyam Mehre needs to stop being ‘Sam

Marcy’

Deus ex Machina

• “A good from a machine”

• To end a drama with a god, lowered to the stage by a mechanical apparatus

• Call of God

• Help to character

• Problem solving

• End of the novel

Human Relations, Strategic, Love, Sex and Marriage

• Male-female relationship

• Characters: lively, Adventurous, Good tempered, Sociable, Frank, Amiable

• Bakshi womanized

• Shyam love with Priyanka

• Radhika- Trying to manage the household activates and job

Human Relations, Strategic, Love, Sex and Marriage

• Vroom love with Esha

• Anxiety and insecurities of the rising Indian Middle class

• Including questions about career, marriage, family conflicts in a changing India

• Self help

Symbolism

•God

•Knitting the scarf

•Drink

Knitting the scarf

Imaginationshe was backto knitting her

scarf. Knitting the Scarf God

Calling Prologue Epilogue Important Episode of God.

God

• Climax

• Turning Points

• Positivity towards life

• Thinking in different way

• Second side of coin

Drink

• Drink is symbolizes that how youngsters wasting their life in India by smoking.

• Drink is contemporary metaphor of melancholic state of being –depression, stress, feel-bad.

• They are not taking care for their life or career.

Annotated Bibliography

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It’s shows facebook page of user shahrukh and he also describe the summary of this book.

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In this Raj Lalwani give personal experience and also give how different this book with five point someone.

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