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National Geographic is airing a five-part programme on the changing face of India
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India is a time traveller's dream — you are always in the right time zone and also in a time warp. We all know of data moving swiftly through broadband Internet while an overloaded bullock cart carries construction material to the site of the next silicon city.
Ditto is the case with popular culture and the way the country is perceived. From snakes and elephants, now you have the call centre as the heart of new India. In a series of programmes called Emerging India, that started yesterday with The Hole in the Wall, National Geographic airs Samir Mallal's Bombay Calling. The film follows the lives and loves of call centre employees.
Deja vu
The programme has a sense of déjà vu. There is more to life in call centre than talking in an accent. There is the easy money and the almost predestined attraction of criminal elements as Bangalore has discovered to its horror.
The effect of large sums of money on the fabric of society is something that should be explored. Suddenly it is no longer cool to get an education before getting a life.
That Mumbai holds filmmakers in thrall is a given, as of the five films being aired, three are on the megapolis! Apart from Bombay Calling which will aired today, there is a film on the stuntmen of the Indian film industry, Stuntmen of Bollywood, which will be aired on tomorrow and Mumbai about the city's phenomenal public transport to be aired on Thursday.
The final film on Friday takes a look at India's advances in science, Hot Science from India. All the programmes will be aired at 10 p.m.
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