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A metaphorical take on business outsourcing

Is the outsourcing industry really a bubble? If yes, how long will it take for the bubble to burst? What does this `bubble' look like from Wall Street, the United States of America, and from Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram?

All these questions are asked and sought to be answered in a 90-minute docu-fiction, `Project Outsourced,' produced and directed by Krishnan Sundararaman a US-based IT professional.

A preview of the work will be held at 9 a.m. on August 3 at Kairali/Sree theatres.

The docu-fiction features interviews with a group of people, including Noam Chomsky, on the pros and cons of the BPO industry. It then pans to Technopark where `Mrs. and Mr. Outsourced' arrive to run an outsourcing operation. In keeping with the filmi tradition, an Indian youth falls in love with lady Outsourced. But then, the director wonders, what will happen to the Indian when `Outsourcing' decides to pack its bags and leave?

This is the question that Mr. Sundararaman posed to the group of economists, CEOs, Ivy League professors and former BPO employees. According to a press note issued by the makers of `Project Outsourced,' all the experts pointed out that as the cost of labour increases, "the same economic forces that propelled the outsourcing of jobs from the US to India will ensure that these jobs migrate elsewhere — to the Philippines, China, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Russia and several other contenders which are fast catching up with the Indian advantage."

The screenplay, says the director, shot entirely in Thiruvananthapuram by cinematographer Sunny Joseph is a metaphorical take on this phenomenon. Hindustani vocalist Ramesh Narayan has scored the music for the docu-fiction.

G. Mahadevan

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