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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 technogeek. 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.
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Title Hello 
