Jesse Metcalfe Movie:

		List Price: $27.98		Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Salesrank: 12903 Released: March 31, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 03/31/2009 Rating: Pg13

Other End of the Line (Widescreen) Reviews:
Standard hollywood formula
2009-10-22 - If you enjoy the standard Hollywood formula, this movie is certainly for you. Don't expect any enlightenment on indian culture or the ways of that country. The Hollywood view, presented in this movie, is that most indians are sort of primitive call center operators, whose training is to learn the types of burgers sold in the US... Of course, the standard indian is a "marry-arranged-wife-at-home-cow-worshiper", and the american character is a cute man with a heart, who grows up a bit... Americans are the usual free spirited, but brash and a bit immature types, who provide love to the beautiful rebel foreigner, and in exchange mature a bit.

The only danger about watching this movie is sleeping through it, given the number of cliches and beaten up dialogues. Anyway, this passable romantic comedy shouldn't be taken as a cross cultural movie. A more interesting and fun cross-cultural movie, on a very very similar theme, is Outsourced.

PS: Marriage and Hollywood's view of love are completely overrated. It usually leads to 58% divorce rate, and 95% alcohol drinking rate. Interestingly, indians have a much kinder view of the USA, and their movies typically portray americans as mostly what we present ourselves to be... Maybe it is a vestige of colonization in the mind of that country. Someday, someone will make a movie about the gentries (rich and powerful) in the USA, who still have arranged marriages and mangled fortunes. And funny enough, many of these marriages last much longer than the ones in hollywood...

Well, it's cute, but maybe not worth watching twice
2009-09-15 - I usually like these "american boy meets indian girl" type teenage films, but this one was totally beyond predictable. I could have just watched the first 45 minutes and just written the rest myself and I would have probably came out with the same story and outcome.

I liked "Outsourced" a lot better than this one, and the story is pretty much the same concept. Even "Americanizing Shelley" seems to be a better story. Aishwarya Rai's "Mistress of Spices" was kinda weak to me but even that story got just a little bit stronger and more appealing since I've seen "The Other End of the Line".

The indian girl here (Shriya Saran) is, of course, gorgeous just as any indian girl in these kinds of movies are. If she wasn't so pretty, then I'd give this movie only one star.

But, like I said, it's worth watching once, and it would probably make a great gift for a teenage girl.

Cross Culture Romantic Movie : Love at First Call
2009-07-20 - Cross Culture Romantic Movie : Love at First Call . T

This is true Love at First Sight ( I will rephrase it --> It is Love at First Call

A romance which blooms in a Call center leading to Marriage.

Some points doesn't seem realistic when compared to ideal life . But overall Well made Movie with great Plot , light romantic moments.

Other End of the Line (Widescreen)
2009-06-30 - This was a very interesting movie from a cultural viewpoint and i found it very entertaining.

Makes you think twice before getting angry with customer service
2009-05-19 - Intercultural love stories are pretty common nowadays, and they all follow a pretty similar pattern: boy and girl meet; they fall in love; one of them hides a secret about his/her past; the traditional foreign family messes up the relationship by forcing the partner to reveal the secret; then one of them flies around the world and proclaims his/her love.

"On the Other End of the Line" doesn't deviate from the pattern, but does improve upon it. The plot idea involves an interest twist: finding love over a credit card customer service hotline. The movie never gets too silly or unrealistic (there's no sudden revelations that, say, the bride had an affair with the best man or scenes of hundreds of brides chasing a hapless groom). Unlike many romantic comedies, this movie actually has some comedy. Even though we have seen plenty of comedies involving Indian families and such scenes could easily become stale, my wife and I found ourselves laughing out loud at some of the conversation between Shriya Saran (Priya) and her family (for example, her father's view on marriage: "Happiness? Do you think I was happy when I married your mother?").

Indeed, the actors were generally warm, likable, and funny. Shriya Saran never overplayed or overdramatized her character's family and culture problems (as happens often in movies about intercultural love stories). The movie also avoids stereotyping Priya's family as "the traditional Indian family" by allowing the her father a few comedic moments to shine alone without the main characters. Even Jesse Metcalfe (whom I only know from Desperate Housewives) plays his character as a realistic mix of the charming "all-American hunk" and a sensitive young man with real fears. Many love movies have a scene when the characters supposedly have a deep, intimate conversation about their hopes and fears, but these scenes are typically shallow and unconvincing. When Metcalfe's character tells Priya about his fears (namely, failing in his career), I actually sympathized with him and could easily imagine such a conversation taking outside of Hollywood.

Overall, "On the Other End of the Line" is both funny and sweet. It may not be the most exciting movie of the year, but is probably better than most of the romantic comedies out there.