davidjanuzbrown This is not a movie to watch on TV ( unless you recorded it(. There are so many scenes you need to cut through ( and a few to go back to) it is not funny. It's about two different people Priya from India and Granger from the United States who first meet when when he calls a call center after his credit card was used illegally. She flies to San Francisco to meet him and lies about who she is. Spoilers ahead; It is the usual boy meets girl boy loses girl boy gets girl back. What is interesting is the lesson in the movie about taking Chances. Granger never takes a chance in life: He tells a story how his best friend ( and business partner) Charie are at summer camp and only Charlie has the guts to go across the river to the girls side and meets a 14 year old girl who he says he will marry. Then a decade later on a date sees her and drops the date for that same girl and marries her. Granger is more popular then Charlie but never gets what he really wants in life. There is a scene where Charlie tells Granger " Do you know your problem is? You never put yourself out there, never take a chance, and do not let people know who you really are. at the end of the movie, he finally takes a chance and flies 18 hours to India for Priya, on the slim chance she did not get married ( she was engaged when they met). It turns out she did not get married because she fell in love with Granger and would not make her fiancé happy. She risked turning her family against her. Especially her father who was a strict Hindi businessman. But her father loves Priya and when the fiance's father called her a tramp, he stood up for Priya especially noting "Above all this is my daughter and I love her." At the end Granger and Priya end up together. Her father is especially impressed when he said " I will give your daughter all the love and respect that she deserves." He gives his approval when he offers some tortilla looking bread and has him sit down with the family. Meaning Granger has been accepted into the family. 5/10 Stars mostly to look at Priya ( she is hot and adorable at the same time) and for the ending.

MartinHafer "The Other End of the Line" is a decent film but it frustrated me to no end. It seemed that there was an awful lot of good but also a lot of clichés and a plot that seemed to need some editing. However, on balance, it's still worth seeing this multinational production.When the film begins, you are introduced to and American named Granger--an incredibly shallow and difficult to like guy. One day, he receives a phone call from his credit card company, as his credit card has been compromised. Because him number has been stolen, he ends up spending a lot of time on the phone with the credit card rep, Priya. However, like many companies, they outsource this work to India and Priya has learned well to sound just like an American--and she tells Granger she lives in San Francisco, not Mumbai.Over time, the pair talk more and more and Granger becomes interested in actually meeting her face to face. After all, his job is taking him to San Francisco. So, she hops a plane to San Francisco to meet him. However, she makes a lot of insane choices. First, she does NOT meet him in their prearranged location. Second, they end up meeting by chance and they begin to date--and she does NOT tell him that she's the lady on the phone. Third, she never tells him she's engaged--and this ends up causing LOTS of problems when her very protective parents drop everything and chase Priya to America. Through some silly misunderstandings, they think Granger has kidnapped her! What's next? See the film.So here are the problems with the film. First, when the film begins Granger is a shallow, selfish jerk and is sleeping with another shallow, selfish jerk. This makes it VERY hard to care about him. Second, while you initially really like Priya, she lies again and again for practically no reason at all and ends up behaving rather selfishly herself. You know that by convention they SHOULD eventually have their happy ending together, but the writers just didn't provide the proper context for this. But, on the plus side, if you can ignore the clichés and predictability of the film, the supporting characters are WONDERFUL and the film has a nice sense of humor. In particular, Priya's father (Anupam Kher--who is ALWAYS wonderful) and Granger's boss (Larry Miller--I loved his bluntness combined with his sweetness) made the film very enjoyable. Overall, I say this is a very flawed but enjoyable film. Had they simply polished a few of the sharp edges, it could have been great. As is, it's a decent enough date movie if you are not especially demanding. Odd, though, how the weakest aspect of the film are the two main characters.

vchimpanzee Granger and his partner Charlie are struggling in the advertising business. They make a sultry and suggestive presentation to Kit Hawksin of Hawksin Hotels, a very demanding businessman. Hawksin is very disappointed that the ad executives do not get his conservative views, but he agrees to give them another chance.While in bed with his intimidating girlfriend Emory, Granger receives a call from CitiOne Bank saying his identity has been stolen. It is the first of many contacts Granger will have with "Jennifer David", who claims to be from San Francisco. Actually she is Priya Sethi of Mumbai, India.Priya is engaged to Vikram but doesn't love him. As is often the case in India, it is an arranged marriage and her conservative parents don't care what Priya wants. They are even bothered that she works the night shift (because that is daytime in the United States, where CitiOne wants its customers to think the callers are from) and seem to want her to leave that job. But Priya is very good at her job and enjoys it; she mimics an American accent perfectly. And we see the training the employees get: it's quite detailed and we see how her employer expects everyone to convince people they are American.Charlie, meanwhile, is also about to get married, and Granger will be his best man. This provides even more distractions.As part of his effort to win over Hawksin, Granger and Charlie have to go to San Francisco. This gives Priya a chance to meet Granger, and she reluctantly agrees to do so--in order to talk about business. She has relatives in the area and her family believes she is visiting them. Never mind how she gets so much time off work. But when Granger arrives at the meeting place, he sees several girls who could be "Jennifer". Realizing she has seen granger, and knowing she will never live up to his expectations, she gives up on trying to meet him. But then Granger bumps into her--literally. Granger and Priya immediately make a connection, and to make sure their relationship will work, Priya keeps quiet about her real identity, claiming to be a nurse from India on vacation.It just so happens Priya is staying at Hawksin Hotel, and Hawksin meets both Granger and Priya. He asks Priya for an evaluation of his hotel and she does a wonderful job, worthy of one of his commercials. For that he rewards her with one of the finest rooms.Meanwhile, Priya's parents wonder what has happened to her, and they angrily take off for San Francisco to retrieve their wayward daughter.Over the course of the movie, Granger and Priya run into numerous obstacles. Will they overcome them?Well, I can say this much. The ending is nothing short of amazing.Shriya Saran is beautiful, adorable, easy to like and quite talented. She does a very convincing American accent and comes across as very intelligent, though she's just cute enough not to be threatening. Unlike Sara Foster, who is merely pretty, but we don't want to like her and we're not supposed to want her and Granger to make it.Jesse Metcalfe also does quite a good job. Especially in one scene toward the end, but I don't want to give away too much. I'll just say he talks about the time he and Charlie went to summer camp. The clash between cultures provides some opportunities for comedy, and both leads make this work.Austin Basis is appealing, coming across as an friendly but somewhat incompetent. I especially liked how Hawksin intimidated him and pointed to his proper and quiet Japanese associate of thirty-plus years. Larry Miller, as Hawskin, also does a very good job as a demanding businessman. The conservative Indian relatives make this movie different. The father Rajeev is determined to keep his family in the past but realizes he is fighting a losing battle. He is appealing in a bumbling way.There is one hilarious scene at the San Francisco hotel involving words that can have more than one meaning. The movie does get slightly naughty from time to time, and it would be hard to describe it as a family film, but the version I saw likely had some offensive material cut out for broadcast TV and was relatively clean.It's mostly formula but it's a winning formula.

Sherazade OH! My WORD! Okay two things people, two things! Any movie that centers itself on an Indian woman trying to pass herself off as a White woman (is off to the wrong start) unless Julia Roberts is the actress playing the Indian woman trying to be White. Mia Sara did such a great job in Queenie and it was very believable.Secondly, any movie that deals with Indians complaining about the effects of American outsourcing, is also off in the wrong direction. The movie combines both disastrous elements, with disastrous results. Jesse Metcalfe co-stars. Ugh!