Download Movie - Bombay Calling
Canada 2005.
Directors: Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal
"A vibrant, insightful look at young people employed in India's bustling call-centre industry ... Like an East Asian companion piece to Startup.com."
Eye Weekly
"Analogous to nothing so much as Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, so vividly does it encapsulate the mug's game of sales."
Toronto Sun
Winner of the NFB Colin Low Award for Innovation in Canadian Film at this year's DOXA Documentary Film & Video Festival in Vancouver, Bombay Calling opens a revealing window onto one of the phenomena of our globalized world: the outsourcing of telemarketing jobs in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. to call centres based in India. "With the starting salary of these new outsourced jobs being quadruple the Indian average, thousands of educated young Indians are now competing for highly paid call centre jobs. Bombay Calling gives us an insider's look into a fast-paced and competitive world where call centre employees are continually pushed to sell, sell, sell telephone plans to U.K. customers. We meet colourful characters like Sweetie, who is able to financially support her family from her call centre earnings, and Charles, who admits to being a 'ladies' man' as he does the majority of his sales with female clients. Filmmakers Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal deftly integrate upbeat music tracks and an array of Bollywood film clips in this entertaining doc that offers a fresh look into the role of capitalism in new India" (Hubert Davis, Hot Docs Festival, Toronto). Addelman and Mallal's previous documentary, Discordia, an account of free speech values and fractious Middle East politics in conflict at Montreal's Concordia University, received its Vancouver premiere at Pacific Cinémathèque in September 2004. Colour, DigiBeta. 72 mins.
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