Sanjay reviews two movies- Bolivia

is a bleak, gray movie shot in black and white with a grainy look to it, which I thought just added to the mood of this absorbing movie. It examines the intersection of anger, poverty, and harsh economic conditions that almost always bring xenophobia boiling to the surface.

while Outsourced, he thinks, is ‘one heck of a charming movie’:

Asha in a lot of ways exemplified the changing face of the Indian woman who, thanks to education and economic freedoms appears to be stepping out of the box that tradition and culture create for her. She is engaged to be married to a guy from a family (that her family knows for generations) since she was a child, and in Todd she sees someone who will let her express her freedom. So is what they feel for each other love?

Asha explains to him that given the cultural background that this time with him is like a “Vacation in Goa”. He asks her if that is all he means to her a vacation? Asha responds to him, tears in her eyes “You are the only vacation in Goa”.