God! Hello!. Review on Hello

Hello was based on a Novel by a novelist who is 3 novels old and is now pretty acclaimed in his own rights. The movie will in all likelihood be seen by a lot of people who have not read the book. So the film makers cannot make a movie and say if we’ve missed some thing, read the book. It doesn’t work that way.

The movie could not have cost a lot to make as most actors are not established. Except Salman, who was kind enough to rope in his brothers(Arbaaz and Sohel) and their in laws(Amrita). Also a small set was required to show a call center floor with only six tables spaciously spread to cover the space. Very few people watch un-researched badly thought out movies. But no mater how few people watch this one, Hello will cover its costs.

Obviously the makers did not want to spend money on unessential things like an expert on the functioning of a call center. Also one scene that requires an international call center crowd the makers saved by getting extras that looked like domestic call center employees.(in case I need to specify, these are two different breeds and look and talk differently)

There was only one process in the call center, and all worked for Tech support(established when they all agreed to con the customers). Also it was established that the call centre had thousands of employees(Daleep Tahil was willing to fire 1000-2000 of them). Why were we looking at a floor with only 6 tables and 6 employees? Savings for the makers here? Also the transport picks not area wise but team wise instead.

The makers go on to make more mistakes. A Temp supervisor reports directly to the process owner! Number of jobs at stake is 1000 in one scene and 500 in another. People are shown taking calls during downtime. After reporting to work at 10.30p.m., by midnight Sohel is shown taking his second break.

In the climax they come up with a plan to increase volume by conning customers. Dude that is suicidal will get everybody fired. Some characters in the movie(Suresh Menon as the singing tech guy and the hero’s temp girlfriend} were unnecessary sources of irritation and subtracted value from the movie and should have been edited out before the final print was okayed. God calls on the phone and in the speaker phone sounds like Aakashwani from the skies(If you want to argue that this was God I say he did not need that phone). Call centre jokes revolve only around turning power on or off.

A narrative tale needs to keep looting the audiences in. Here there was no charm in the way Katrina narrated the story and did not suck you in. Rather it was a test of patience. After gods message, the follow up action should have been dynamic, super charged and intense. Instead was lackluster and just about executed.