Lots of the exteriors look like they could actually be shot in India.. and I've NEVER seen a half hour comedy with as many extras. Even scenes in the call center have dozens of people walking past the window.
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soo fake, u would never see an office where americans owned or worked reside on the damn streets
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<<I should also add that I never saw street vendors selling goods on carts, as they have on the show.>>
I read somewhere (I think on the official Outsourced web page) that while the inside scenes are shot in California, the outside scenes really are shot in India. I've been to India plenty of times, and have seen TONS of street vendors selling goods on carts, especially in major cities.
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You never know until you visit the original country.
shareIt's shot at CBS Radford, in Studio City
shareDo they film in a predominantly Indian American area? Sometimes I wonder if all of the extras are Indian, or if they slip people of Middle Eastern, Southern European, Hispanic, and African American descent in there and pass them off as Indian.
shareI'm guessing New York City at the NBC Headquarters or LA.
sharethe outdoor scenes remind me of like the old hollywood film sets. it just doesnt look real to me, it looks like fairly big eleborate sets.
shareHere's where the show is filmed, exactly.
http://studiocity.patch.com/articles/outsourced-brings-jobs-to-studio-city
From the article link:
So Outsourced is set in Mumbai. How exactly do they recreate Mumbai in Studio City? Producers sent a crew to film actual locations. The studio actors get inserted into the backdrops with special effects.
"We were doing it on green screen," Rappaport said. "So it was me and Rizwan [Manji] sitting in the rickshaw, and there was a guy behind us with a 2-by-4 shaking the rickshaw, checking his texts every once in a while."
I have watched the first episode. I am an Indian, it appears similar to some other works on the same topic, but it was not a waste of time and I enjoyed some moments.
Lets talk about the shooting. All the scenes outside the glass windows are fake and digitally added. There cannot be an office situated in such a way that you can look at those scenes from the glass windows. You have to go to some small town or village, where you cannot find such call-center.
The scene where the two managers are in a auto-rickshaw also has the background added digitally.
There are a few scenes where none of the cast is being shown, such as scenes of the city(outside the office). These are separately shot footage and also not from Mumbai, which is a big city.
About the characters, most of them are American-Indians, I guess. Except a few, like Asha and big dark colored woman.
It seems that these things are already explained in the article mentioned in the posts above. What I said is my experience in India.
It seems clear most of it is shot on a set in LA. The call center office, the cafeteria, Todd's hotel, etc., are all sets, as is the street scene outside the call center. There are many establishing shots (i.e., transition shots between scenes, background street scenes with no actors, stock footage, etc.) that are definitely shot in India - but I agree it's not Mumbai (unless it's some part of Mumbai I haven't visited, which is possible). It looks a lot more like Bangalore, which would make sense considering the enormous influx of outsourcing to that city in the past 10 years.
FWIW, the characters are dead-on caricatures of real-life folks I've met and worked with in India - the ambitious assistant manager who is eager to move up at the American manager's expense, the woman who is too shy / intimidated to speak, the girl-crazy young guy, the heavy funny guy, the angry Sikh, etc. - all remind me of people I know :) Makes me want to go back soon.
Lets talk about the shooting. All the scenes outside the glass windows are fake and digitally added. There cannot be an office situated in such a way that you can look at those scenes from the glass windows. You have to go to some small town or village, where you cannot find such call-center.
"Lets talk about the shooting. All the scenes outside the glass windows are fake and digitally added."
I have now watch 6 episodes and I would like to correct my statement. The scenes outside the windows are part of the set. Even if it looks unrealistic to me, but director has tried to show all different things and types of people you can find in India. For example, the hawkers, small street shops, sadhu etc. It is impressive. The more I watch this show, the more I like it.
"There cannot be an office situated in such a way that you can look at those scenes from the glass windows. You have to go to some small town or village, where you cannot find such call-center."
I still stick to what I said above. @dnarasimham, You should plan to come to India and see it by yourself. No offence.
"Let me guess; you are one of those Indians who is offended by the racial undertones surrounded within this show."
@dnarasimham, Actually this cultural aspect makes me stick to the show :) There will always be a huge difference between the cultures of India and America. Only parts of metro cities are westernized.
? What does his statement have anything to do with being offended? It's the truth, that you would not find a call center just by some street like that or in that area. It would be in a nice office building in a business area of the city. Especially a call center with an American manager, of a company that is from the USA. I agree, visit India and you'll see.
shareI like this show, but the sets are ridiculous, especially to a native Indian. It's supposed to give off an Indian vibe, but looks fake and inauthentic. And yes, most of the extras are not Indians. Most are black or Hispanic, if you look carefully. A call-center would be set in a business/commercial area of the city in a very large building that hosts MNCs operating out of it. Not by the side of some random street. I'm an Indian, I've lived in Calcutta for 24 years and visited Mumbai several times.
shareI agree. It looks very fake and a call center would definitely be in a more commercial district, not where all the markets are.
Also the random shots they show (of streets and life) during the transition scenes where there is NO cast appear to be real, but perhaps not from Mumbai.
Any Indian who has been to India should be able to tell the difference.