1 Missed Call- Sampark Kranti Calling

What happens when a backward remote village that is still waiting for electricity gets its first Mobile Phone instead? Probably the same that a hungry infant does when he gets a toy instead of milk. He starts playing with the toy forgetting his hunger.
‘1 Missed Call Sampark Kranti’ is a light-hearted, slice-of-rural-life social satire set in a tribal village of interior Vidarbha during 1990s – The period when Maharashtra was going through significant socio-politico-techno change.
Power equations in the State and Centre had turned topsy-turvy. A major Power Project fiasco triggered the dark decade of loading shedding in which hundreds of villages lost their electricity supply indefinitely. Our Kesgaon Tanda being one of them.
Engineer Kamane is deputed from Pune to fix Kesgaon’s Electricity. Shrewd officer knows his punishment deputation is just a sham in face of the elections. There’s nothing for him to do here, nor does he want to do anything. He rather finds weird ways to amuse himself. Not wanting to serve in the village, he gets a ‘mobile phone’ to facilitate his transfer back to Pune.
Like that hungry child, villagers go crazy for this new gadget forgetting their primary demands. Seeing this the Village chief in collusion with Kamane, gives-up the uncertain issue of Electricity and cashes on the latest sensation making Mobile Phone his new Election agenda. While most people believe ‘Live the moment, don’t lament’, a few powermongers misuse this attitude to ‘Distract and Rule’.
Using mobile phone as a metaphor between haves and have-nots, the film intends to satirize the leapfrog progress while attempting to give an experience of the digital revolution from rural India’s point of view in an engaging way that is mostly realistic, at times grotesque and sometimes fantastic.