Characters in One Night @ the Call Centre.

Characters in ON@TCC.

Name : Solanki Pratiksha M.
Paper : 13. The New Literatures
Subject : Assignment
Title : Characters in One Night @the Call centre
Roll No. 21
Sem : 4
Submitted to : 

Smt. S.B.Gardi
Dept. of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

pratikshasolanki068@gmail.com    

About Chetan Bhagat: 

Born: 22 April 1974. Delhi
Occupation: Writer
Genre: Fiction

     Chetan Bhagat is a well known Indian English writer, known for his bestselling about young urban middle-class Indians. His bestsellings are..

•  Five Point Someone (2004)
•  One Night @the Call Center (2005)
•  The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008)
•  2 States (2009)
•  Revolution 2020 (2011)
•  What Young India Wants (2012)
•  Half Girlfriend (2014)

ON@TCC :

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 Connexions call center in Gurgaon, Haryana. It is a story about the lives of six people working in a call center searching for true happiness and towards the end of the book we can see how “God” comes to rescue each one of them which leads into a major transformation of everyone’s life. We also see the downfall in some of characters life.





Characters : 

Shyam Mehra :

Shyam Mehra, call name Sam Marcy, he is the narrator of the story and we can say that he is the hero of the novel. Throughout the novel we see Shyam narrating his past dates with Priyanka with whom he has had a break up. He is a person who lacks self-confidence and therefore he is unable to achieve his girlfriend as well as a good position at his work place. He is extremely talented and efficient. Towards the end we see how he transforms himself into a completely new person and achieves whatever he wants in his life and at the end positivity. 

Priyanka: 

Priyanka is the heroine of the novel. To be precise, Shyam’s ex-girlfriend. Priyanka is an intelligent and a practical girl who is too pre-occupied with her mother who was an extremely important person to her. Priyanka’s mom wants her to marry an NRI boy and just for the sake of her mother she had decide to break up with Shyam and marry with NRI boy but we can say that still she loves Shyam..

Varun Malhotra :

Varun Malhotra, call name Victor Mell, is Shyam’s friend. He loves Bikes and speeds so friends call him Vroom. He stays with his mother who has separated from his father and his father was a businessman. We can say that Varun is the most carefree person in the novel. He has a soft corner for his colleague Esha, but she has never taken him seriously till now it seems and as we know he is a very good friend of Shyam so he helps him to get back with Priyanka. Vroom is the one who saves “Connextions” call center from a major problem using his skills. In the end he gets along with Shyam and starts his own web based company.

Esha Singh:

Esha Singh, call name Eliza Singer, is the pretty face of the group. An aspiring model who run away  from her home because just want to b a model so that she had joined callcenter so that she could achieve her dreams. Just because her desire to b a model she had slept with one designer to get a offer and after that she realize that she was cheated by him and with the guilt she decides to give up her dream to become a model and continued to work at the call center.

Radhika Jha:

Radhika Jha, call name Regina Jones, is the only married one in the group. Trying to manage the household activities and her job.Her aim is that " to earn money and settle down on one hand, and manage her mother-in-law on the other. " She had married her husband against her parents’ wishes and always tries to adjust with him and into an orthodox family. One day she finds out about  her husband’s affair with another woman and sudden decides to give him a divorce and stay with Esha. 

Military Uncle:

Military Uncle who live alone and having some problems with his son and grandson but at the end he realizes his mistake and decide to apologize. Military Uncle who works at the call centre to earn few money apart from the pension that he gets.

Thus in ON@TCC, all characters have their individual life and struggle and at the end they got their answer and positive end comes.

Thank you..!