Summaries

What will a girl do when 2 burglars have sneaked in her house and the only source of help is a wrong number on her new phone?

SMS is a simple story with strong McLuhan-Ian undercurrents to it. A young girl is alone in a house that is broken into by burglars. Hiding for her life and desperate for help, her only way of communicating with the outside world is her new mobile phone; and there is only one number on it - a wrong number. Will she get help at all, and in time? How far will someone go to help someone whose identity is only a number on their mobile phone? The story subtly embodies McLuhan's theory of technological determinism in saying that technology shapes our lives as we shaped it's tools.—Rajinder Singh Puller

Details

Keywords
  • technology
  • mobile phone
  • burglar
  • girl in jeopardy
  • wrong number
Genres
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Short
Release date Jun 27, 1979
Countries of origin India
Official sites Official site
Language English
Filming locations Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Production companies Zero And Company

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Runtime 11m
Color Color
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