Trunk Call

Trunk Call

This is a story of 1980s in India, an emotional journey of a mother, who is waiting for the landline telephone connection. In those days when mobiles were not existing, communication was slower but because it was slow it marked a value. It was meaningful to be connected to people staying far away - there was greater family bonding as everyone would wait at a landline to talk to someone near and dear to them, especially for a mother to talk to her son far away from home. The Punjabi family of Mr.