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Starring:
Sohail Khan, Amrita Arora, Sharman Joshi, Isha Koppikar,
Sharat Saxena, Gul Panag, Dalip Tahil, Suresh Menon and
Rishi Nijawan
Directed by Atul Agnihotri
The film is
based on the novel 'One Night at the Call Center" by
Chetan Bhagat. Hello is the story of 3 Men and 3 Women
working at a call center - Connexions, their lives,
their work and above all their relationships. The story
is told to a protagonist rock star (Salman Khan) by an
unknown woman (Katrina Kaif) who narrates this story to
him:
These six
colleagues manning the call centers find that their
world is on the verge of a collapse. At that moment,
they get a call from God and his conversation with them
especially regarding their boss - Bakshi, makes them sit
up and take notice.
Hello does
have some flashes of good humour, but this is not enough
since it has a vague screenplay in which the six
employees gang up against their America-loving boss and
manage to retain their jobs by – spreading a “rumour”
throughout the US. And all ends well.
Hello has a
good setting, unfortunately with a weak script. Rather,
the promos of this movie made it look a little more
mysterious and exciting then it actually was.
CREDITS
Directed by
Atul Agnihotri
Written by Atul Agnihotri writer
Based on the book "One Night at Call Center" by Chetan
Bhagat
Produced by Atul Agnihotri
Line Producer - Shamsher Walia
Original Music by Sajid Ali
Cinematography by Sanjay F. Gupta
Film Editing by Umesh Gupta
Assistant Directors - Megha Bali, Ansari Imran, Anupam
Maanav, Nikhil Namit, Alok Upadhyay, Baldev Walia
Assistant Editor - Subhash Chnadra Jaswal
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The story of 'Hello' is a tale of a call center on a
particular night. There are six characters:
We have Shyam
(Sharman Joshi) who finds that his girlfriend Priyanka (Gul
Panag) is dissatisfied with his job that she might drop
him as desired by her mother (Bharti Achrekar) and get her
married to a rich NRI. Esha (Isha Koppikar) is an aspiring
model who is a focused carrier minded girl, and there is
Varun aka Vroom (Sohail Khan) who loves her immensely.
The glamorous Radhika (Amrita Arora) lives at the mercy of
her mother-in-law while her husband (Arbaaz Khan) is
involved with another woman. The tough Military Uncle (Sharat
Saxena) isn't allowed to interact with his grandchild. As
expected there is the big bad boss of this call center -
Bakshi (Dalip Tahil).
The story
itself takes place during one night and each character
reveals his / her problems either about their love life,
or any marital issues, other personal problems in general.
They then ponder over the prospects of all of them losing
their jobs since the centre belongs to an American based
company and the manager of this centre is extremely keen
on moving to the USA.
Chetan Bhagat's novel "One Night @ The Call Centre" is
indeed worth reading from the point of views of both
content and its characterization. Sadly the director Atul
Agnihotri's movie based on the novel falls far short in
respects of story telling and even the depiction.
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PAW
Cast
Shyam - Sharman Joshi
Varun - Sohail Khan
Esha - Isha Koppikar
Radhika - Amrita Arora
Priyanka - Gul Kirat Panag
Military Uncle - Sharat Saxena
Bakshi - Dalip Tahil
Mysterious Woman - Katrina Kaif
Salman Khan
Television Reporter - Anupam Maanav
Systems in-charge - Suresh Menon
Ganesh - Rishi Nijhawan
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