One Night @ Call Centre: Anxieties and Insecurities of the Rising Indian Working Class | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Orthodox style of education does not allow the students to think creatively. Even his new ideas are discouraged by his professors. Moreover life will not be tragic if an average student does not get good grades. Life is about how one lives it to the fullest without harming the others. His characters know how to live and take breath in crucial circumstances. Hence one will start pondering upon the purpose of life and the role of education into it. In One Night the Call Center all the characters live a dolorous life. They work at the call center not out of their passion but for some other reasons, mostly financial. In such dismal condition, the call from God energizes and revitalizes their vision of life. These six people directly or indirectly represent the ordinary citizens of India. Shyam and Varun in One Night the Call Center also suffer economically. Shyam has no father while Varun‗s father does not live with him and his mother. So they have the responsibility to take the charge of their family. They have to continue their job without any interest in it. Radhika has to contribute to run her family smoothly. Being a daughter in law, she has double responsibilities. Esha wants to be model but she has to earn as her parents are against her ambition. She left them to fulfill her dream while Priyanka‗ mother is such a melodrama queen that she becomes successful to convince her daughter for arrange marriage against her will. Her problem is the pain of every spinster in Indian society. Govind‗s father also lives with other woman and makes him and his mother helpless economically.