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Characters:
 Sharat
Saxena as Retd. Maj. V. P. Chauhan
(Military Uncle)
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Thinking about his grandson
 Sohail
Khan as Varun Malhotra
(Vroom)
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Sleeping, Rebelling, Spending time with
bikes, and girls
 Amrita
Arora as Radhika Jha
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Mother-in-law management
 Gul
Panag as Priyanka Kapoor
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Managing her mother
 Sharman
Joshi as Shyam Mehra
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day Job: Avoid being walked over
 Isha
Koppikar as Esha Singh
Night Job: Call Center Agent
Day job: Get that modeling break
 Dilip
Tahil as Subhash Bakshi
Night Job: Call Center Head
Day Job: Waiting for the call transferring him to
Boston
 Suresh
Menon as Hanapam Swamy
(System's Guy)
Night Job: System Engineer
Day Job: Upgrading skills, getting certifications,
coding on Java
STORY:
 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 canter who is about to be
snatched by an NRI techno geek.
There is also the aspiring model, Esha, who is hopping
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 Bhaqat'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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