Gurdial Singh Rahi is a reputed novelist, who has portrayed realistic Malwa region of Punjab in his fiction and is translated from original Punjabi language into many of the world languages. His fifth novel, Night of the Half Moon/Adh Chanani Raat, is a critically acclaimed piece of art, in which Gurdial Singh has created an immortal rebel hero, Modan, who shares heroic characteristics of the legendry heroes of Punjab like Dulla Bhatti, Jeona Morh, Jagga Daku, Sucha Surma, Mirza and Arjan Valley etc. The paper endeavours to study the nuances of the evolution of a rebel hero, by understanding what is to be a hero, hero’s definition, and his inspiration from Northrop Frys archetypal and Albert Camus existential lenses. The paper attempts to understand the psychology of the novels rebel hero, who strives hard for keeping his honour, putting at stake all that he has, for living a manly life, when all other, around him are falling into nihilism.