For most level headed people, falling in love with a person that you have only spoken to over the phone is the stuff movie scripts are made of. Yet for others, it is what marriage is all about.

Priya Sethi is one of the latter. Even though she is engaged to marry a suitor chosen by her father who disapproves of her working in a call center, she is intrigued by the prospect of falling in love with advertising executive Granger Woodruff, a customer who calls in to report fraudulent charges on his credit card. And being in a failing relationship, apparently the same intrigue is not beyond him either and when he realizes that he has to fly to San Francisco (where he thinks she works) to pitch a campaign to a client, he asks her out for a date. The catch though is that she has neither told him that her accent is fake nor that she is an Indian working out of a call center in India. He only knows her as Jennifer David and when she decides to accept his invite (as Jennifer David) and fly out to San Francisco without her family’s knowledge, confusion ensues. What happens in the end is something you have to find out by watching the movie (who am I kidding?), but it would suffice to say that love triumphs over color and geography!

Produced by Ashok Amritraj and directed by Tracey Jackson, The Other End of the Line is an ode to movies like Pretty Woman, Offficer and a Gentleman. The main protagonists played by (rumored real life pair) Shriya Saran and Jesse Metcalfe each have baggage of their own and they come as a breath of fresh air into each other’s lives. Their coming together is not without incident, but even with the contrived circumstances behind their union, it is impossible not to root for the pair. The characterizations are not without shortcomings. Metcalfe’s Woodruff comes off as a jerk sometimes while (even in this day and age) one can’t imagine anyone flying to another country on a whim for a romantic dalliance with a random stranger. But the chemistry between them is what saves the show and the end result is a tender (and rather light) romcom that will probably serve as a perfect date movie.

Starring Jesse Metcalfe, Shriya, Anupam Kher, Sara Foster, Larry Miller, and Tara Sharma, The Other End Of the Line is the first in a five-year co-production deal between Amritraj’s U.S.-based Hyde Park Entertainment and India’s powerhouse studio Reliance and opens in select theaters this Friday.

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