Wednesday, January 04, 2006

One night at the call center

The above is the title of Chetan Bhagat's new book.He is the guy who wrote '5 point someone'.I and all of my friends loved that book. I guess every engineering student can empathize with the story and it's characters. If u go to his website chetanbhagat.com then u will see that he cites 5 books that inspired him to write 5 point someone. The list is Catcher in the rye,english august,catch 22, moth smoke and the god of small things. I have read the first 3 and all of them are excellent.
Now coming to his new novel. I finished it today. The first half is bit slow but the ending was mindblowing. I really loved it. I am just stating my personal opinion so dont blame me if u read it and dont like it. It is about 6 call center employees and one night that changes thier lives,because they get a phone call from god.

The characters are
1. Shyam - a guy who has lost his self confidence because of a bad boss.He also lost his girlfriend,Priyanka who is his colleague.

2.Vroom(Varun) - the youngest of them all. used to be a journalist but then joined the call center for money.

3.Priyanka- lives with a dominating mother,who she also loves dearly. she had to end her relationship with Shyam as her mother disapproaved of him.

4.Esha-an aspiring model who ran away from her parents house in chandigarh and came to delhi.has to work in call center to make ends meet.

5.Radhika- married for love.but now has problems with mother in law.

6.Military Uncle- A retired army officer who lives alone now because of his differences with his son and daughter in law.

7.Bakshi- the boss of the above people.an evil and stupid guy.loves using management jargon.

This novel has a very good message at the end too. I dont want to reveal too much so thats it for now.