Archive for October, 2008
Oct 31, 2008
American Films Would Make Fun of India
Five years ago scriptwriter Tracey Jackson went to Hollywood with a clipping from The New York Times, perhaps the first article to report on the call centres in India. The article talked about young Indians working in Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai and pretending to be Americans for credit card company clients in the US.
“They would put on accents and say “Hello my name is Nancy,” Jackson recalls sitting in a cafe in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “And I thought this would be such a great idea for a transglobal love story.”
