Review of one night@ call centre by Chetan Bhagat

One night at call centre by Chetan Bhagat

The buzz was on about a book which is soon going to see the lights of cinema halls from the book shelves. Being inquisitive, curiosity gripped me about the book as not much authors can awe struck our melodramatic fictional Bollywood. This temptation negated my monthly budget to buy much hyped Chetan Bhagat’s latest “One night at call centre”
Here, I am turning pages of an autobiographical chapter of a much depressed and low call centre team leader. The great expectations from IITian author brought me a major setback. The plot travels only in a span of night at bay of call centre. The night in which six peoples fate working in that bay are twisted to downzone of their live and a call which brings climax of story and their lives at sawn of happiness and new beginning. The narrator uses a too phony incident for readers to accept and digest even with Hajmola. The protagonist (Shyam) is self reviewing, eccentric, hypochondriac, paranoid and constant complaining unhappy freak.
The book travels in past quite a number of times to dates between the protagonist and his ex-girl friend who also co-incidentally is his co-worker (Priyanka) . The dates are too amateurishly and feverishly explained with frequent bouts of male chauvinism. The couple has broken up and have a cold war between them and too add to woe of Shyam, its night when He and other colleagues learn about wonder boy from U.S.A. to whom Priyanka is getting engaged. Now, as if this wasn’t enough, the other 4 colleagues have major drift downward in their personal lives on same night leading to a depressed bay at call centre. The sorrow doesn’t end here, to aggravate the state of depression at bay all six learnt from their no good opportunistic manager Bakshi that they are all part of gang going to get sacked for cost cutting procedure. To break free they all decide to take trip outside call centre to pub in order to get high in alcohol to forget all lows in their life. On way back to call centre they are struck by a life taking incident and then the phone rings which saves their lives and changes their paths of lives, and call is from……..God.
The book may be just another readable. The language used is poor and book lacks page turning effect. The story is too drugged and dragged upon. Though it reveals quite a lot truth about recent effects of urbanization but it lacks an eye opening effect. I was longing to finish book as soon as possible to jump on other interesting book. The author should try a different approach with good language to make books gripped to reader. In conclusion, just worth a read if you have time otherwise you haven’t missed somethin