Revolution 2020 and One Night @TheCall Canter

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NAME: AMI SOJITRA

TOPIC: CHARACTERIZATION IN THE TEXTS OF CHETAN BHAGAT WITH THE REFERENCE OF ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER AND REVOLUTION 2020

PAPER: NEW LITERATURE

COLLEGE: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MKBU

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CHARACTERIZATION IN THE TEXTS OF CHETAN BHAGAT WITH THE REFERENCE OF ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER AND REVOLUTION 2020

 INTRODUCTION

‘One night at the call center’ by Chetan Bhagat is a story about the lives of six people working in a call center searching for true happiness. Beginning with a messed-up love story of the narrator “Shyam”, to the separated family life of the retired military person, we can see different short stories of each individual fighting to get peace. In the midst of their complexities they work together at the “Connextions” call center under the Manager Subhash Bakshi who acts like a villain in the story. 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 of Mr. Bakshi, who is taught a lesson by his agents whom he considered ‘good for nothing’ and exploited them.

  Revolution 2020 is written by Chetan Bhagat. The fiction has been started in Varansi which is one of the holy place of India. Even the protagonists were very little. Than they grew up and their dreams leads them in different direction.

Love and the Politics remain the center of the novel even there was love triangle. Money is important to live the life but money is not life.Arti, Gopal and Raghav are best friends and the protagonists of the fiction.

The novel talk about dream, love, ambition, politics, friendship and journalist. In modern time these elements become part of our life. At the every point of life these things comes to us. The realization is something important and after knowing the mistakes one have to face a big turn in life and Gopal has done that. Being a son of poor man he has dream of earning a lots of money and for that he has unknowingly stepped in to politics.

SHYAM MEHRA(ONE NIGHT@ THE CALL CENTER)

First of all the author introduces us to Shaym(Shyam Mehra)– the narrator and the most important character of the book who is the hero of the book along with his close friend Vroom. For Shyam, Priyanka who was his girlfriend as well as a colleague is the most important person in the whole story. 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.

CHARACTER OF GOPAL (REVOLUTION 2020)

Aarti and Gopal have been childhood friends, and share a deep but platonic relationship. As teenagers, Gopal pushes Aarti for more, but she later reveals that she was not ready for anything. Gopal gets a low ranking in the AIEEE exams while Raghav is among the toppers. Gopal moves to another city (Kota), to join reputed coaching classes to help with his ranking. Raghav becomes a celebrity in the town after he passes the Indian Institute of Technology entrance exam. Aarti falls for Raghav during Gopal's absence.

Gopal becomes a rich and successful businessman, but is still heartbroken over Aarti. Despite sacrificing his lifelong love to bring about the "revolution", Gopal still doubts whether he is a "good man".

CHARACTER OF VARUN(ONE NIGHT@ THE CALL CENTER):

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.

CHARACTER OF PRIYANKA (ONE NIGHT@ THE CALL CENTER)

Priyanka- an intelligent and a practical girl who is too pre-occupied with her mother who was an extremely important person to her. For her mother’s sake she had decided to break up with her boyfriend Shyam and marry NRI Ganesh. However, things turn out to be different in the end and Priyanka chooses her love over her mother’s wishes for the sake of her own happiness.

CHARATER OF AARTI(REVOLUTION 2020):

Aarthi was in love with Gopal since her school days. This is clear from her dairy. If she has Gopal in her mind why did she love Raghav. Aarthi says "It’s sometimes about timing, and sometimes about how much you push’. So then does she accept Raghav only because he pushed her harder than Gopal. How did she ever allow herself to get " pushed" when she loves Gopal so much. More so isn't Gopal clear enough to her that he loves her since start. Why is she so ambivalent?

Aarthi could have drifted to Gopal for the time and love he gives her which she is deprived of from Raghav. But why should she have intimate relationship with him. Though unnecessary this may be the authors plot to make the story interesting and practical  in his terms. Since "Passions repressed for years came forth unleashed" did it become possible for Gopal to let leave Aarthi to Raghav after some dramatic events? Would it have been possible otherwise?

CHARACTER OF RAGHAV(REVOLUTION 2020):

Raghav decides to become a journalist and pursue a career in a newspaper publishing house. Raghav, AS a journalist, exposes the corruption-funded college and is eventually fired from the newshouse. Raghav starts his own newspaper, Revolution 2020, to "change the world" and expose the corrupt system in India. After another expose, Raghav's newspaper is shut down by politicians and thugs, and he loses almost everything.Raghav is still passionate about his activism and forgets about Aarti.

CHARACTER OF ESHA(ONE NIGHT@ THE CALL CENTER):

Esha Singh who wants to become a model. She was pretty and had been struggling quite hard to get modeling assignments but perhaps her short height is a barrier (obstacle/wall) for her choice of career. She had slept with a Designer once, to get an offer, who turned out to be a cheat. Since that incident she had formed a guilt within her which was one of the reasons of her not accepting Vroom’s proposal. In the end she decides to give up her dream to become a model and continued to work at the call center.
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.
 

CHARATER OF RADHIKA(ONE NIGHT@ THE CALL CENTER):

Rahika Jha, who stays with her husband and in-laws. She had married her husband against her parents’ wishes and had transformed herself completely in order to adjust herself into an orthodox family. She had been working very hard to mange her house and work. Unfortunately she finds out her husband’s affair with another woman and decides to give him a divorce. In the end she quits her husband’s family and goes to live with Esha.

CHARACTER OF MILITARY UNCLE(ONE NIGHT@ THE CALL CENTER): 

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.

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. 

CONCLUSION:

Here in both the novel Chetan Bhagat has broken his own image of characters and the names of the character. In Revolution 2020 the names of the characters are appropriate to the nature of character but in One Night @ The Call Center has characters who have totally different characteristics than their names.


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