Outsourced

In the last day of my Outsourcing class at ISB, the professor showed a preview from a movie called Outsourced. It was about a manager in telemarketing who gets sent to India to train his replacement in his company's offshoring unit. Of course, he encounters cultural shock at the Indian traditions and everyday life. I remember laughing out loud in class because some of the short scenes in the preview struck such a similar sentiment to my own experiences with things Indian.

So upon our return to the U.S. I ordered the movie from Netflix and we watched it last night. As I expected it is filled with lots of stereotypes, but I was pleasantly surprised at some of the accuracy it hit in the little details - from the head-bobble, language, aggressive rickshaw drivers, "no problem!", "what is your good name?"... even to the warm hospitable encounters we had with complete strangers... all in all, it was a fun movie took us back to India for 2 hours.

Here's the movie trailer link if you'd like to check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LImhTTFu4b8