Tring..tring. Tring..tring [No answer]
You have one missed call!
Should’ve missed the call -- is the feeling that all avid movie watchers, like me, went to watch Hello felt after coming out of the hall. Salman says ’A call you have to answer’. Really? Who cares what Salman says.
If you ask me, honestly, I like Chetan Bhagat’s novels, somewhat, and when I heard there was a movie made based on it, I wanted to watch it. Little did I know that it would be preposterous. This one time — just this one time — I wish I had been busy attending to something more important so that I could not find time to go for the movie.
Now, I have a condition before I read any of Bhagat's novels which is that no matter what no one will ever try to make a movie out of his novels. Because I feel it's Bhagat's mistake too. He shouldn't have let Atul Agnihotri direct the movie in such a way.
Hello is an embarrassingly amateurish movie. The film is based on Chetan Bhagat’s best selling novel titled ‘One night @ the call centre’. The film revolves around six persons and how their life changes that particular night. I wish they had casted serious characters in the film to show such a serious plot. The movie includes Sharman Joshi as a call-centre team-leader in the making, and Sohail Khan, Eesha Koppikar, Gul Panag, Amrita Arora and Sharat Saxena. Starting with the call-centre in Hello, which looks more like the lobby of a three-star hotel, to its executives who always seem to be on a break or using official lines to make personal calls, the filmmakers seem unaware of and indifferent towards even basic details about the world they've set their story in. Call centre employees everywhere will be horrified by the way their job is being portrayed.
The characters in this film are dull and uninspired, and the actors playing these characters are just as bored.
Sharman Joshi and Sohail Khan lend a few moments of silly humor, but the others appear to be sleepwalking through their scenes. Eesha Koppikar is shown as a struggling model but the kind of attire she wears suggests something else which was even mentioned in the film where she’s known to have slept with many men to get good work. Gul Panag managed to act well in some parts of the movie. Amrita Arora is better off on Page 3 where she keeps popping up in every other party with a new boyfriend. Why can’t she just wear backless tops, advertise something’s, give stupid interviews about fashion and make a living out of it, why does she have to take up acting?
To add to it the other characters in the film like the call-centre-head and the system maitainence guy are exaggerated to such a degree that they come off looking like idiots. The call-centre-head seems to love Americans and he keeps saying that throughout the film then why does he have to wear a tie of the flag of the States? That’s exaggeration.
Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif who chipped in between could not do a thing to make Hello less boring.
When you occasionally find yourself laughing in your seat, you realize you're laughing AT the film, not WITH it.
Moral of the story: Hello’s dull. Hello’s extremely stupid.
The only thing right about the movie was the beautiful Katrina Kaif playing an angel, because she did look like one.
