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See this before you travel to India!

Robert Lewis Frisbie | Houston, TX USA | 07/09/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I have just returned from India on a business trip. My company has recently opened an engineering department in India and I am on a project using 1/2 American and 1/2 Indian engineers.

I saw the movie on a Luthansa flight on the way home.

This was a wonderful presentation on what it means to do business in India! It's intelligent, well written and entertaining. And, true!

I heard and saw so much in the movie that was part of my own experience. The incomplete buildings, the ramshackle wiring, the cultural divice between east and west.

And, let me not forget to mention, the wonderful people of India! Charming, intelligent, hard working and polite.

See it before you travel!

My only criticism, and not a sharp one, is that no comments were made on the litter and trash on every street or on the thickly polluted air in the big cities."

What's another word for delightful? and I'd love to own this

terpfan1980 | Somewhere near Washington DC, United States | 12/31/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A few others have said that this is a charming and/or delightful film, and I really don't want to use the same words, but being a bit short on a theasarus at the moment (yeah, yeah, I could fire up the word processor, use the theasarus function there, etc., but why do that when I'd rather have a nice Hindi word to use instead? ;-) ) I think I'll stick with those words.

This is a funny film while also being sweet and charming, but not overly so. It's a typical fish out of water tale, but with a nice modern twist. Take a customer service manager that is comfortable with his existence in a call center in the United States and force him to go run the companies new call center that has been Outsourced to India. Seems simple enough, take a few days, go check out the center and make the required improvements and then climb on the plane and go back home. If only it was that simple.

U.S. citizens tend to think of the world revolving around them and the United States, but that is far from the truth. If you've seen any episodes of the reality TV series Amazing Race you may have learned a bit about the rest of the world and also may have learned about how bad U.S. citizens can behave while visiting the rest of the world. Many times we (U.S. citizens) assume that the rest of the world should automatically understand and speak U.S. English. We also assume that the U.S. dollar should be good everywhere, and that we can find our choices of food items everywhere we go. Such is really not the case, as is evidenced by the realism that shines through this film with comedic flare.

This is a great film to watch whether or not you ever had the priviledge of traveling outside the U.S. or not. If you are lucky, you might have friends and co-workers that are immigrants. I have had just that experience, with a former co-worker that is from India. Having seen this film streamed from the by-mail/internet disc rental company on my gaming console with the green X on the controller, I was very happy to be able to show them that co-worker and her family the movie while visiting one afternoon. She and her husband (also from India) both thoroughly enjoyed telling myself and my family about how realistic things were in the film.

I would dearly love to have this film on Blu-ray or the now defunct HD DVD format. It's a very good film, and for some it might even hit the status of great. It is certainly well worth viewing, and would be a definite buy on Blu-ray (if it was available) if that was possible. On DVD, well, I'm holding out for now in the hopes it eventually comes out on Blu-ray, but at the right price it would be a nice addition to anyone's collection."