A few days back i saw a screening of this movie called Outsourced at the South Asian International Film Festival SAIFF. This movie is about an American guy whose company outsources his work to a call center in India, and sends him to train the person who was going to be his replacement manage that call center! Interesting enough for a dekko.
So our man, the hero - Josh Hamilton, very reluctantly travels to India because his stock options are all locked and quitting the job would mean he loses it all. Very valid reason. Smart man.
He lands at the Mumbai Bombay airport only to be surrounded by about 1000 taxi drivers (Ok. I added a zero to that to add some spice. Btw hero likes spicy food, and the boss made that a point for him to come to India). He finally picks a guy who turns out be be, well, an Autorikshaw driver! Funny scene that one.
What does Mr white guy eat first thing in India? A gola (some sort of ice cream. Only with ice and no cream). Obviously his stomach doesn’t quite like it. Then he is taken to auntyji’s guest house. Aunty looked like the ba of tulsi fame. A typical indian woman who doesn’t like the fact that hero is not married despite being so old (a little over 30), or that he doesn’t live with his parents, or that he eats with his left hand (Please. i am not going to describe the reason for that. Go watch the movie if you must know)
Filed under: India, Movies , Outsourced Movie Review, South Asian International Film Festival
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