Globalization Makes for Strange Bedfellows in Cross-Cultural Comedy
After learning that the customer service department at the novelty products manufacturer where he works is being downsized, Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) is faced with the equally-undesirable choices of either leaving the company or relocating from Seattle to India to train his replacements. After all, his boss can hire eight employees at $11,000 per year on the subcontinent for the same price of retaining his services.
Conceding that he’s standing in the way of globalization, Todd agrees to move to Mumbai, where he comes to regret that fateful decision right after landing. For not only does he soon see himself as sewing the seeds for the speedy demise of his own country’s infrastructure, but he finds himself missing familiar staples of his homeland, like his favorite, McDonald’s hamburgers.
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So, when he starts familiarizing his new recruits with American idioms, he deliberately misinforms them about the fundamental meaning of certain terms. For instance, he says that a schmuck is a nice guy and that a redneck is a farmer, knowing full well that sewing such confusion will only serve to aggravate callers from the U.S. Meanwhile, Todd is being driven crazy by beggars and pickpockets and by local customs calling for eating meals without utensils and treating cows as sacred instead of cooking them.
Consequently, he is eager to return to the States, at least until the day he locks eyes with the alluring Asha (Ayesha Dharker), a raven-haired intern with good looks and spunk to spare. Curious despite their considerable social differences, the two embark on a flirtatiousy kabuki dance daily until they can contain themselves no longer and share a stolen kiss.
Todd falls head-over-heels in love and starts dating Asha secretly, not knowing that she has a big bombshell to drop. Turns out that she’s been engaged since the age of four and that her arranged marriage to the boy picked by her parents isn’t far off. Will she abide by her family’s plans or abandon her fiance for the white man for whom she feels so much passion?
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That is the pivotal question to be answered in Outsourced. Engaging, unpredictable, hilarious and entertaining at every turn, this charming romantic romp offers all you could ever ask of a modern cross-cultural comedy, plus it paints a plausible picture of the logical consequences of sending jobs overseas.
Outsourced
Excellent (4 stars)
Rated PG-13 for sexual content.
Running time: 103 minutes
Studio: Truly Indie
Spc. Katrinna Arnett, of Finley, Ohio, with Company B, 76th Special Troops Battalion, 76th Infantry Brigade, Indiana Army National Guard, sets up the Tactical Automatic Landing System for the RQ 7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind.
By Staff Sgt. David Bruce, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Public Affairs
EDINBURGH, Ind. – Soldiers of the Indiana Army National Guard’s Company B, 76th Special Troops Battalion and the Army’s 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division launched RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial Systems from Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind., as part of Bold Quest 13.2.
Bold Quest is a multinational capabilities demonstration to test the interoperability of systems used by coalition militaries and new technology. The two-week event brings together technology companies and the militaries of 12 coalition nations to develop and improve the capabilities of soldiers to communicate, coordinate fire and reduce the risk of fratricide.
The Bold Quest utilized the full range of Indiana’s defense infrastructure, conducting operations at Camp Atterbury, Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Jefferson Proving Ground, Grissom Air Reserve Base and the 122nd Fighter Wing facilities in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
The Shadows were launched as part of Bold Quest, a multinational capabilities demonstration to test interoperability of communication systems and new technology used by coalition militaries.
Spc. Katrinna Arnett, of Finley, Ohio, with Company B, 76th Special Troops Battalion, 76th Infantry Brigade, Indiana Army National Guard, sets up the Tactical Automatic Landing System for the RQ7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind. Photo by Staff Sgt. David Bruce, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Public AffairsSpc. Todd Wilson, of Fort Knox, Ky., with 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Spc. Katrinna Arnett, of Finley, Ohio, and Sgt. Zac Merkling, of Avilla, Ind., both with Company B, 76th Special Troops Battalion, 76th Infantry Brigade, Indiana Army National Guard, prepare an RQ7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System for launch at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind. Photo by Staff Sgt. David Bruce, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Public AffairsSpc. Charles Harvey, of Fort Knox, Ky., with the Army’s 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, performs preflight checks in preparation to launch an RQ7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind.Soldiers with Company B, 76th Special Troops Battalion, Indiana Army National Guard, and the Army’s 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division repositions the launch system for an RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System prior to launching at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind.An RQ7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System is launched at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison Ind., as part of Bold Quest 13.2, a multinational capabilities demonstration to test new technology and the interoperability of systems used by coalition militaries.Soldiers with Company B, 76th Special Troops Battalion, Indiana Army National Guard, and the Army’s 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division conduct preflight checks on an RQ7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System prior to launching at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind.Spc. Katrinna Arnett, of Finley, Ohio, with Company B, 76th Special Troops Battalion, 76th Infantry Brigade, Indiana Army National Guard, Staff Sgt. Francis Zeigler, of Fort Knox, Ky., with 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, and Spc. Charles Harvey, also from Fort Knox and 3rd battalion, 1st Infantry Division, conduct preflight checks for the RQ7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial System at Jefferson Proving Ground, near Madison, Ind. Photo by Staff Sgt. David Bruce, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Public Affairs)
By Staff Sgt. David Bruce, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Public Affairs
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