Sudden industrialization and big scale mining activities in central-eastern India, in the twentyfirst century, has affected the socio-economic fabric of society which was earlier dependent on agriculture. People felt alienated due to the shift. A new meaning in life has to emerge. In this backdrop, a young man and a young woman cross each other's path accidentally, each searching for his/her identity. Their journey starts on the ever expanding ROAD. The moving car becomes a temporary home away from the real home which never is anymore. The ROAD however apparently seems to be the ROAD of lies and betrayal. Both the characters are looking for freedom. Is it escape from REALITY ? Or is it only a DREAM ? Hello Arsi delves into these themes and tries to conjure a new meaning through the inner reflections of the two nameless travellers.

Hello Arsi, the first and unfortunately the last of Sambit Mohanty's attempt at a Post-Modernist film following his interest in Post-Modernist literature. Here in Hello Arsi, YOU (the audience) are drawn into a circle of deceit of narrations via monologues seeming like dialogues between two strangers. YOU start accepting them as true. You don't give much importance to characters, you jump over the barrier of believability of characters or unbelievability of the situation, the mismatching cause and effect and listen to the speech which builds a new image in the imaginary domain of the viewer.—prasantanu mohapatra

Two unknown travelers reveal their identity, rather blabber each's heart out to the other, which otherwise seems lost in the transition of life and time from agrarian to industrial society and thus beaming social alienation, which otherwise would not be revealed if they are acquainted to each other..