Bombay Calling

A quiet but fascinating documentary glimpse into the world of off-shore call centres. I really enjoyed getting to the know these people and sharing in their hopes for the future. I found it particularly revealing that, having spoken so much to people overseas, that they had very little interest in emigrating to North America or Europe. I guess it's easy to romanticize places you've never been to! Having spoken to so many people, many for whom life is life than perfect, they come to realize that life in India, or Mumbai at least, is maybe not so very different after all. I particularly like young "Sweetie", a very pretty young woman who seemed to live up to her name, but later when made a supervisor and trainer was not at all shy about dressing this guy down on camera for failing to meet her standards. Not at all the stereotypical submissive Indian woman the media sometimes portrays.

Fascinating movie. People from abroad and India have just heard about jobs being off-shored and India taking a lead in this matter but this movie gives quite a nice overview about what the whole fuss is about. The way things move from good days to bad days is well documented. The details shown regarding the training, accent etc are very enlightening.

Sweetie as mentioned by another person here is too cute. Other employee's lives are also shown in an interesting manner. The joys, hardships & sadness is captured well by the director. Overall a must see for all those who want to know what this whole much talked about Call Center Business is all about.

This movie wasn't bad...or good. As far as documentary's (which I love) go it was more like a reality show. There was no story or point. The Indian telemarketers try to sell phone services to British customers. They then leave work and drink a little. That's pretty much the whole movie. Generally you expect with a documentary it's going to be enlightening or intriguing, this movie was neither. Ended pretty abruptly. Untimely if you like watching home movies of a person in their office then this ones for you; otherwise it's really not worth the time. There isn't much more I can stay on the movie considering how little it was about.