An employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.
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To our reviewers who give this film a "10", come on...you've got to be kidding.To our reviewers who give this film a "0", come on...you've got to be kidding.This is a run-of-the-mill love story. Nothing special and it has its flaws, but it has its moments, too.The story idea is cute enough -- an ad agency man falls in "like" with a credit card call desk operator who sounds like an American woman, but is actually halfway around the world in India. The Indian call desk operator falls in love with the ad agency man. All this happens over the phone. So the Indian woman flies to San Francisco to meet Mr. Sexy Voice. Then there are the typical miscommunications and misunderstandings until...you guessed it...they live happily ever after.So what are the problems? The main problem is the woman's father (Anupam Kher, a popular Indian actor). I don't like this portrayal at all. It really detracts from the film. It's not that the overall idea is bad; but it's not handled well at all...at least for American audiences. The other problem is that the young man's profession...well, why not take it a little seriously to lend some credence to the plot; instead it's handled at an almost juvenile level. And then there's the casting of Larry Miller as the hotel executive; Larry Miller has his place...this was not it.On the other hand, it's nice that there was on-location shooting; it lent credence to the story line. Personally, I liked the chemistry between Jesse Metcalfe and Indian actress Shriya Saran. I think Metcalfe is significantly underrated. Let's face it, you don't get much more handsome than that, but in a number of films and television shows, I think he's at least a reasonably good actor (admittedly not one of the great actors...but few are), and this type of role is perfect for him. I was not familiar with Saran, but she is very pleasing in her role here.Bottom line: this was a decent little love story. Perhaps with a better director it would have been a better film. I still give it a "7".
Sometimes when you watch a movie, you shouldn't be too serious. After all, not everything can happen in real life. I liked this movie because of the good chemistry between the two leading actors, and those romantic scenes.There were some problems. For example, can Indian citizens get visas to the USA so easily? If that is the case, there would be a lot of Indians coming to the USA now. Second, can Granger actually ask to meet a girl without even seeing her pictures first? After all, he can just ask her to send him a picture via the email. Third, the speech Granger gave at his friend's wedding just doesn't sound real. And he stopped talking and had to rush to the airport right away, that is not what a normal person will do. Fourth, the whole call center people stopped working while they talk, and the whole group clapped their hands when they kissed. That is just unreal.I have seen a few Indian and US movies, it seems that those movies are always about marriage. Indian daughters want to find some nice husbands who live in the USA to marry to. Anyway, I enjoyed watching this movie despite a few blemishes.
The plot follows the tried-and-tested romcom formula of boy-meets-girl - -> fall in love --> misunderstanding --> patch up --> happy ending. And in all honesty this "hybrid" movie had pretty good chances to strike it gold doing a piggy-back ride on the success of "Slumdog Millionaire". And to realise that, better writing was warranted. There are umpteen places where you feel why are the potholes are glaring at you? The girl's idea of her version of hen-night could have marinated better. And her parents tailing her is probably the lowest point in the movie. So is the creative guys finding stealing the idea from the girl. Well, the list just goes on. Shirya Sharan get the biggest pie, so much that it seems the movie was made to give her footing into the Hollywood.Jesse Metcalfe is confident. As the creative person in the movie, he falters in a few places.Anupam Kher, Sushmita Mukherjee, Kiran Juneja were plain loud. Tara Sharma reprises her usual "coy" performance.Not bad if you want to watch it when aired on telly.Ashok Amritraj – better luck next time.
This is a great movie, i really loved it, one of the best romantic movies i've ever seen, great actress, great plot, i have time without see a movie like this one.this movie redefine the phrase love at first sight to love at first call.A movie that teach us that does not matter where are u from neither who you are, Always there is a special person in our life, it does not matter how far away they are while we are willing to cover through that distance and to assume the risk everything is going to be well.^^