The Other End of The Line
The movie follows an Indian employee at a Call Center, who travels to San Francisco to be with an American advertising agent she has only spoken with over the phone. But she told a lie, and when it's exposed, will their love survive?
11 January 1977, London, England, UK
14 September 1976, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
19 December 1975, Loring AFB, Maine, USA
5 February 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 February 1978, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
22 July 1979, Elk Grove, Illinois, USA
31 January 1981, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
16 March 1971, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
21 April 1961, Long Beach, California, USA
November 07, 2008
...contrivances to the point of absurdity...
October 31, 2008
A winning Stateside debut for beautiful Indian actress Shriya Saran.
October 31, 2008
A feather-light romantic comedy that's laborious when it ought to be effervescent; The Other End of the Line is the latest exchange in an awkward conversation between two film industries.
November 04, 2008
Superior to a lot of the bigger-budgeted, starrier-cast romantic comedies that come out of Hollywood...but too lightweight and rough around the edges to amount to anything more than a harmless time-waster.
July 01, 2016
While ostensibly celebrating global connectivity, this film does so from the perspective of an American audience for whom India is an idea rather than a place.
November 04, 2008
At its simplest level, this is a sweet, if forgettable trifle starring two healthy, bright-eyed young lovers who look great on each other's arm.
October 31, 2008
The Other End of the Line ends up being a five-minute ad for buyer's insurance instead of an interminable interracial, international, intercultural romantic comedy.
March 21, 2009
This example of the cross-cultural romance makes the genre seem hopelessly exhausted.
October 31, 2008
The Other End of the Line isn't always convincing on the romance front. As a comedy about culture clash, however, The Other End of the Line works nicely.
October 31, 2008
By the time the filmmakers have set up all the story lines that will blend for a very long third act, the predictability factor has become all but unbearable.
November 03, 2008
The film settles into a pattern of predictable romance interspersed, thanks to the antics of Priya's relations, with broad family farce.
October 31, 2008
The movie is like a glass of Sprite that has been left on the counter too long: transparent, sweet and flat.
