NEW YORK: Shriya Saran, making her Hollywood debut, received a handful of flattering reviews over her Hollywood hunk co-star Jesse Metcalfe. But the film The Other End of the Line received mostly negative reviews. Worse, it was also a box-office disaster.
She could of course gloat over the influential trade publication Variety declaring that the film 'is a winning Stateside debut for beautiful Indian actress Shriya.' But where was the audience for the film?
Even for a low-budget film which reportedly cost $2-$3 million, the weekend gross of $57,000 on 91 screens in North America was more than a disaster. The MGM-distributed film was dead on arrival and would be out of most of the theatres next week. The English language film also played in the desi movie circuit but just a few fans of Shriya, who had admired her in such films as the Tamil mega hit Sivaji, came to see it.
The film centers on Priya Sethi, a call centre worker in Mumbai who falls in love with Granger, a customer in America without ever meeting him. She flies to America impulsively ditching her Indian fiance and sees his dreams challenged at every step.
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