India, June 6 -- In his new web series, Made in India: A Titan Story, Jim Sarbh plays Titan founder Xerxes Desai, the man who challenged European watchmakers with India's first luxury watch brand. A key component of the show is how Desai and JRD Tata (played by Naseeruddin Shah) were spurred to create Titan after being told by a Swiss watchmaker that Indians lack the technical expertise to do so. In a conversation with Hindustan Times, Jim addressed how this underestimation of Indians' skills is not just a matter of a foreign mindset.

Jim said that while the show discussed how others underestimated Indians at what they do, Indians themselves have done the same. "For a while, there was this rumour floating around that when you send your f...