Hello 2008 Movie User Reviews - Page 3 of 4

Ratings

User ratings

39 ratings

2.5 Good

Rating analysis

Excellent
15.4%
Very Good
25.6%
Good
12.8%
Average
17.9%
Poor
28.2%

Critics Review

Reviews

zahrag

this film is creating controversy from the adaptation of the novel ONE NIGHT AT THE CALL CENTER but…

soniya_g

Chetan Bhagat Bhai...Im sure you never knew this was coming...The total debasement of what was at…

Chetan Bhagat Bhai...Im sure you never knew this was coming...The total debasement of what was at least an ok book. I guess you should have waited for Rajkumar Hirani to make a movie on five point someone first. This movie is a dud...a turkey and a wannabe film all in one go. The movie features Sohail Khan, Sharman Joshi, Isha Koppikar, Amrita Arora, Gul Panag,Dalip Tahil and Sharat Saxena in key roles with Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan and Katrina Kaif in special appearances. My first bone of contention...Besides maybe Sharman Joshi and Sharat Saxena...Everybody is miscast. Imagine Sohail,Isha, Amrita and Gul as early 20 somethings working in a call centre. The movie does not follow the book in its entirety.To begin with Salman Khan is a rockstar and fills in for Chetan Bhagats part in the novel.BTW he goes shirtless in the opening number.Going by the promos and trailers I though Salman had a big role in the film instead of a cameo...enuff said... Katrina plays God...ha ha...well at least she looks good. Hello revolves around six call center representatives/agents, Shyam (Sharman Joshi), Priyanka (Gul Panag), Esha (Isha Koppikar), Varun (Sohail Khan), Radhika (Amrita Arora) and Military Uncle (Sharat Saxena). There are two things common among these agent friends, one is that they work for the same call center and the other is, all their lives are screwed up in their own respective ways. Add to all this the boss from Hell played by Dalip Tahil.The boss who will take credit for his subordinates work and will go all out to screw their happiness.Tahil unfortunately comes across as a buffon and is unintentionally funny. The solution to their woes....a call from GOD! Sharman as the main character Shyam who is a loser who is also about to loose his love (Gul) in marriage to an NRI is excellent.Sohail has a lot of cool dialouges too and does some justice to his part.Gul is absolutely wooden.Isha looks weird.She plays the role of an aspiring model who works in a callcentre as a stopgap.Ps.Note to Isha...please change your dress designer...you look awful partly due to those whacked out silly clothes youâ€™ve been made to wear.Surprisingly Amrita Arora has worn proper clothes (as in is fully dressed) in the movie and has shown some promise in the acting department.Sharat Saxena does a competent job of the ex-service guy who now works in a call centre. The screenplay is half baked...the direction is tacky...Atul Agnihotri the director should have stuck to acting...oh wait he couldnt really act either. This film is a sure shot looser at the BO with no chances what so ever. If you have an option of seeing the movie or staring at a blank wall for 3 hours take the second option.

carbrain

Hello was based on a Novel by a novelist who is 3 novels old and is now pretty acclaimed in his own…

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 weâ€™ve missed some thing, read the book. It doesnâ€™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 heroâ€™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 sucking 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.