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WORLD PREMIERE
Canada/2005/72 min/Beta SP/Documentary
Directors: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal
Producer: Adam Symansky
Screenwriters: Samir Mallal, Ben Addelman
Cinematographer: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal
Editor: Hannele Halm
Music: DJ Ram
As CEO of a rapidly expanding telemarketing company, Kas Lalani is eager
to cash in on the swell of telemarketing opportunities ushered into
India by globalization. Lalani taps into Bombay's (Mumbai's) highly
educated, English-speaking youth base and pinpoints the most ambitious
and enthusiastic among them to man telephone lines connecting them to
the US, UK and Canada. This generation reared on MTV and fast food culture
is more than eager to don westernized accents and work late night shifts
in their pursuit of the American dream…Indian style.
BOMBAY CALLING brings a human element to the ongoing outsourcing debate and introduces the world to the new generation driving the Indian economy and navigating the ever-narrowing divide between East and West.
English
Print Source:
Lucie Charbonneau
National Film Board of Canada
3155 Cote de Liesse Road
Ville Saint-Laurent , QC
H4N 2N4 Canada
Ph: 514-283-9863
Fax: 514-496-1895
l.charbonneau@nfb.ca
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