Mumbai Calling is a British

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-India

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n comedy

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 series, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Sanjeev Bhaskar, OBE is a British Indian comedian, actor and broadcaster, best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No. 42...

, set in the fictional Teknobable call centre

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 in Mumbai

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. The series was shot on location in India. The pilot first aired on ITV

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 on 30 May 2007. The first series aired on ABC1

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 (Australia) starting on 12 May 2009, and on ITV starting on 30 May 2009.

Plot

Kenny Gupta (Bhaskar), a British Indian

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 accountant, is sent to a call centre in Mumbai by his boss, Philip Glass. His job is to turn it around and make it profitable. Kenny is joined by Glass' daughter, Tiffany, and local call centre manager Dev Raja (Ganatra).

After the pilot episode, Series 1 featured some major changes: Tiffany is replaced by Terri Johnson (Beaumont), and the call centre itself looks much more modern.

Episodes

1. Teknobable
2. Home Comforts
3. Good Sellers
4. Boy to Man
5. Dating Season
6. My Mate Mumbai
7. All That Glitters is Not Glass

These seven new episodes were originally scheduled to be broadcast in a prime-time slot in ITV's 2008 Winter Schedule, however the channel changed its mind and put the episodes "on the shelf". As a result, the new episodes were first seen on HBO India in 2008 and did not appear on UK screens until the end of May 2009.

See also

• Outsourced
  Outsourced (TV series)
  Outsourced is an American television sitcom set in an Indian workplace. It was based on the John Jeffcoat film of the same name and adapted by Ken Kwapis and Universal Media Studios for NBC. The series originally ran from September 23, 2010 to May 12, 2011...
  
  , a US television sitcom with a similar premise.