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24 March 2008

~One Night @ the Call Center-The Movie'Hello'~

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 the Delhi suburb of Gurgaon in 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.


Plot Introduction

The story begins with a train journey from Kanpur to Delhi, During the journey, the author meets a very beautiful girl. The girl offers to tell the author a story on the condition that he has to make it into his second book. After a lot of hesitation, the author agrees.

Claimed to be based on a true story, the author chooses a person named Shyam Mehra (alias Sam Marcy) as the protagonist, who is one among the six call center employees featuring in the novel. The remaining are Esha Singh (Eliza Singer), Radhika Jha (Regina Jones), Varun "Vroom" Malhotra (Victor Mell), Priyanka and Military Uncle. All of them belong to the same team and their manager is a person named Subhash Bakshi, who is a very cunning and negative person.


Major Themes

One of the salient features of this novel is that all the characters featuring in this novel have a dramatic and disturbing event during the night when they receive a call from God.

Shyam's woes

Shyam is very upset to learn that Priyanka is engaged to a person called Ganesh Gupta, who works at Microsoft in the US. To add to his woes, he is horrified to learn that Bakshi had cheated him, and Vroom, by submitting the Troubleshooting Website to the Boston centre as his own without crediting himself and Vroom.

Priyanka's woes

Priyanka is first happy when she is engaged to Ganesh Gupta, who works for Microsoft. But is furious when she hears that her parents have planned her marriage the very next month; which she feels is too early. Both her mother and Ganesh press her to agree to this proposal. She is even more saddened by the fact that Shyam was eavesdropping on her conversation with Ganesh. When Vroom and Shyam show her that Ganesh had forged his pictures to hide his baldness, she disapproves Ganesh for having cheated her.

Esha's woes

Esha had earlier done a compromise by sleeping with a designer to get a modeling contract. However the guy turned out to be opportunistic as he betrays her by telling that she can't become a model due to her height. He also tries to console her by sending her some money. Esha feels terribly betrayed and tries to suppress the mental pain by inflicting herself with physical pain by purposefully cutting her skin.

Vroom's woes

Vroom is shocked to learn that Bakshi has cheated him and Shyam by submitting their work as his own. To add to his miseries, he overhears Esha telling the other girls that she had slept with a designer to get a modeling contract.

Radhika's woes

Radhika, who loved her husband very much, is shocked to learn about his dark side. When Vroom calls up her husband portraying as a radio jockey and asks him to dedicate roses and a song to someone special, he chooses his girlfriend over his wife. Radhika who listens this gets terribly upset as her husband has betrayed her.

Military Uncle's woes

Military Uncle tries to be nice to his son and grandson. But when he sends some pictures via mail to his grandson; his son loses his cool and asks him to keep out of his life. This leaves Military Uncle heartbroken.


Film Adaption


Hello is the next movie of Atul Agnihotri as a director and producer and released in January, 2008. Hello has contained the story of Chetan Bhagat’s book ‘One Night at the Call Center’.

Bollywood star Salman Khan and sizzling Katrina Kaif have a special appearance in the film

Crew:

Reel Life Productions.

Director: Atul Agnihotri.

Music Directors: Sajid-Wajid.

Author,Screenplay: Chetan Bhagat.

Choreographers: Bosco-Caesar.



Characters:

Sharat Saxena as Retd. Maj. V. P. Chauhan (Military Uncle)
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Thinking about his grandson


Sohail Khan as Varun Malhotra (Vroom)
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Sleeping, Rebelling, Spending time with bikes, and girls


Amrita Arora as Radhika Jha
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Mother-in-law management


Gul Panag as Priyanka Kapoor
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Managing her mother


Sharman Joshi as Shyam Mehra
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Avoid being walked over


Isha Koppikar as Esha Singh
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day job: Get that modeling break


Dilip Tahil as Subhash Bakshi
Night Job: Call Center Head
Day Job: Waiting for the call transferring him to Boston


Suresh Menon as Hanapam Swamy (System's Guy)
Night Job: System Engineer
Day Job: Upgrading skills, getting certifications, coding on Java


See Slideshow of Movie stills
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Cliclk here for Official Website

4 comments:

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Rahul Sethi October 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM  

Salman's newest promos of hello look proimising. the movie has one helluva starcast. Cant wait to see a worked out katrina kaif! sharman joshi seems funnier than before. theres no doubt about the stroyline since it is associated with chetan bhagat.

Heck.. go watch it!

(PS : wish there could be a song played by one of our bands at the upcoming distortion event in december)

Sunny October 8, 2008 at 8:16 PM  

ya you r right.....i think salman has a short role in the movie......but i'm sure the other actors in the film have given good performances too. The movie's Audio is goo too. I personally love the Hello title track. Lets see how the movie will be received by the people.

Salman is looking promising in his other movie starting with same letter 'H' >>> Heroes

Unknown September 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM  

This looks interesting. I think, it is also timely because nowadays, call center is the industry that people look forward of applying to. They would very much appreciate this movie because similar things happen with them too. By the way, your article is really worth reading for. I am looking forward of reading your other articles. Thanks so much for the share. Keep it up! Good Luck!

Danielle

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