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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The movie is like a glass of Sprite that has been left on the counter too long: transparent, sweet and flat.
Seattle Times
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.
Jam! Movies
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.
