'America Would Like to Outsource Everything' ; Anuvab Pal, Writer of the Delightful the President Is Coming, Is Back On the Mumbai Stage This Month. He Will Be Directing the Tentatively-Titled 777-Dial-India, Starring Kunaal Roy Kapur, Foizeh Djalili, and Ashwin Mushran. Excerpts From a Conversation.

India Today › June 15, 2009

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Anuvab Pal, writer of the delightful The President Is Coming, is back on the Mumbai stage this month. He will be directing the tentatively-titled 777-DIAL-INDIA, starring Kunaal Roy Kapur, Foizeh Djalili, and Ashwin Mushran. Excerpts from a conversation.

Q. Your new play is a satirical take on outsourcing. Hasn't this been dealt with in the past?A. Outsourcing has everything I love to play with. It has accents, cross-cultural dialogue and my favourite subject: how Indians speak English.

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'America Would Like to Outsource Everything' ; Anuvab Pal, Writer of the Delightful the President Is Coming, Is Back On the Mumbai Stage This Month. He Will Be Directing the Tentatively-Titled 777-Dial-India, Starring Kunaal Roy Kapur, Foizeh Djalili, and Ashwin Mushran. Excerpts From a Conversation.

I wanted to write a play about new India and on how modern jobs are transformi...

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