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Name: Dhruvi Chavda

Topic: Themes of ON@TCC

Paper No: 13

Roll No: 06

Semester: 4

Submitted to: S.B.Gardi, Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.     

Themes of "One night @ the call center"

About Chetan Bhagat:-

Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author, columnist, television personality and motivational speaker, known for his English-language dramedy novels about young urban middle-class Indians. Bhagat is the author of bestselling novels. He writes columns for popular English and Hindi newspapers including The Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar focusing on youth, career and issues based on national development.
He was born in Delhi to a Punjabi family. His father was an officer and mother was a government employee. He married with Anusha, Tamil Brahmin girl.

One Night @ The Call Center:-

One Night @ the Call Center is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat and first published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working at the Connections call center in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. 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. Bollywood movie “HELLO” is the story of one night at the call center.

Themes

Love:-

Love is a major theme in this novel. 

1. Priyanka and Shayam: Earlier Priyanka and Shayam were in relationship but now Priyanka engaged with NRI boy named Ganesh, living in united state.


2. Esha and Vroom: Here Esha wants to become a model, and on the base of it she slept with a designer of modeling contract. Another side Vroom loves her a lot but can't describe only because of her dream of modeling and other desires.

3. Radhika: Radhika is a married girl, living with her mother-in-law. She also loves her husband very much but her husband also cheated her. He had one girlfriend named Payal.

4. Military Uncle: Theme of love also shown in this character. Military uncle loves his grandson very much who is living in abroad with his son. But His son ignored him a lot.

Marriage:-

Another important theme is marriage. First theme of marriage is shows in Priyanka’s character. She is living with her mother and her mother is very eager for her marriage with Ganesh. Mother decided her marriage very earlier so that Priyanka doesn't like that. Radhika is married and also working woman. But her mother-in-law doesn't like this and her husband also has another girl friend named Payal.

Nationality:-

Theme of nationality is a major part of this novel. In ‘One night at the call center’ the idea of nationality is here from the conversation between Vroom and Mr. Fox from America.

Fox: Hello, Fox here, who is calling ?

Vroom: My name is victor; I am the call center agent from............

Fox: Ohh, damn you are the mother fucking idiot from India.

Here we can see how Fox said about the people of Indian. From this answer Vroom became very angry and replied very strongly.

Another example is :  35 = 10 .

It means 35 years old American's brain and IQ is the same as a ten year old Indian's brain.
So this line shows Anti - American ideas of this novel.

Deus ex Machina:-

This is a climax of the novel.

Deus Ex Machina means "God from Machine"

Here a Chetan Bhagat has painted himself into a corner for moving ahead. After all it brings a happy ending or a comic device for audience. Deus Ex Machina is used in this novel by Bhagat when all characters met an accident and no any source are there to save their lives. At that time God's call save them with many messages for life.
After that they all restart their lives from God's advice of living life happily. They all tried a lot to solve their problems from their lives.

So they can get happy ending through the advices of the god.

Unusual Relationship:-

In this novel we can observe that most of the characters are suffers from unusual relationship. Priyanka had an affair with Shyam but then she engaged with NRI boy- Ganesh. But when she starts struggling with their life she rejects Ganesh and confesses her love towards Shyam and married with Shyam then she started B.ed.

Esha wants to became a model but she cheated by a designer. Esha fails to understand the love of Vroom.

Radhika also unhappy in their married life because her mother-in-low torture her and her husband also have an affair with another girl named Payal.

No one can as much happy throughout the whole novel. Everyone has unusual relations with one another.

Modernization:-

One Night @ the Call Center deals with issues of young people, including questions about career, inadequacy, marriage, family conflicts in a changing India, and the relationship of the young Indian middle class to both executive and ordinary clients whom they serve in the United States.

                 In this novel Bhagat’s aim is to convey a message to the people of India from the situation of the characters like the harshness of the situation of women in India. Esha who wants to become a model for that she forced to slept with 40 years old designer and it represents the dark side of the India.

Throughout the novel Bhagat presents modernity like smoking is the contemporary metaphor of melancholic state of being depression, stress, feel bad. Bhagat also talks about the Indian family like the situation of Radhika in her in law’s house. Like one day she do house hold works and in night she works in call center.

Conclusion:-

At the end we can say that a different theme of this novel shows different ideas of our surrounding problems and also their solutions. Here God is only medium to solve all this things, very well described by Bhagat in this novel.