One Night @ the Call Center or ON@CC is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat and first published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working in Connexions call center in Gurgaon, Haryana. It is filled with a lot of drama with unpleasant things happening to all of the leading characters. The story takes a dramatic and decisive turn when they get a phone call from God.
This is the second best-selling novel from the award winning author
Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy.
They get married.
In India, there are a few more steps:
Boy loves Girl. Girl loves Boy.
Girl's family has to love boy. Boy's family has to love girl.
Girl's Family has to love Boy's Family. Boy's family has to love girl's family.
Girl and Boy still love each other. They get married.
Welcome to 2 States, a story about Krish and Ananya. They are from two different states of India, deeply in love and want to get married. Of course, their parents don’t agree. To convert their love story into a love marriage, the couple have a tough battle in front of them. For it is easy to fight and rebel, but it is much harder to convince. Will they make it?
Chetan Bhagat is a great story teller. He can keep you hooked on to the book till the end.
ReplyDeleteHis plots usually involve the life of youth in India in various demographics- Students, Call Center Employees, young professional adults etc. In each book he takes a deep rooted issue and tries to expose it and brings attention to the implications they have on the characters as felt by them. While fresh and easy approach for addressing worthy causes is laudable, this is a popular fiction genre by all means. In his Bollywood style script and characterization, much of the message loses its punch and power.
Read a couple of books and you get the formula. Excerpts will suffice for rest of the books..
What jolted me with shock is the extent of westernization of the lifestyle of Indian youth. The very issues that the west is trying to fight, like alcoholism, smoking and pre-marital sex in the youth are being embraced in India and is even main steam! Unfortunately this kind of lifestyle is not decried but accepted as normal within the story..
In fact the language itself is very American colloquial English for a completely Indian setting as far back as the early 90’s which does not lend authenticity.