'Hello' ....is a tale about the events that happen one night at a call
center. Told through the views of the protagonist, Shyam, it is a story
of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection,
pressures of a patriarchal set up, and the work environment of a globalized
office.
Shyam is losing his girl friend because his career is going nowhere
as he trudges his way around in a call center. His girl friend, Priyanka
is also an agent like him at the call center who is about to be snatched
by an NRI techno Greek. There is also the aspiring model, Esha, who
is hoping for the break that seems to be always already eluding her
and the man about town, Vroom, who is into well, things. The housewife,
Radhika, who is constantly at the receiving end of her mother-in-law
and a beleaguered grandfather, Military uncle, who has been barred from
interacting with his grandchild make up the rest of the call agents
who see their worlds crumbling around them as the decisions of right
sizing are conveyed by Bakshi, the boss. It is a night when dreams will
finally crumble. Or will it?
For there is that call from God. Narrated as a tale within a tale as
a beautiful woman meets the auteur narrator and promises him a story
on the condition that he has to narrate it further, HELLO, based on
Chetan Bhagat's 'One Night @ The Call Center', is the one remarkable
story from tales from a thousand and one globalizing, urban Indian nights.