Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night (2005)

Directed by

Sonali Gulati

Genre

documentary film

Country

India

Runtime

27 min

Rating

0.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Indian filmmaker living in the U.S. examines Indian call centers where workers adopt American names and accents. The film mixes animation, interviews, and archival footage to explore identity and globalization.

informativereflectivewryobservationalunsettlingpersonalcontemplative

What happens

Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night is a 2005 documentary film by filmmaker Sonali Gulati. This film explores business process outsourcing in India. Told from the perspective of an Indian living in the United States, the film provides a glimpse into India's call centers, where telemarketers acquire American names and accents to service the telephone-support industry of the U.S. The film incorporates animation as a way to build in personal narrative in a doodle-like manner. It also includes live action footage which takes the form of cinema verité and innovatively edited interviews, and archival footage that provides contextual analysis to the socio-political history of globalization and capitalism. The film is a commentary on identity in the new millennium that intersects diaspora with global outsourcing. It was first shown at the 2005 Margaret Mead Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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