MUMBAI: A new film starring American actor Jesse Metcalf and Bollywood darling Shriya Saran explores the ups and downs of a cross-cultural romance.Metcalf plays a handsome and charming American salesman by the name of Granger Woodruff. Saran portrays a credit card service agent who calls herself "Jennifer David," and is secretly based in Bangalore, India. The story follows the romance that is sparked when their two worlds collide. Metcalf, who is best known for his role as a hunky young gardener in the U.S. television series "Desperate Housewives," told Reuters he preferred working on the big screen because there is inherently more creative freedom. "I would say for me, I enjoy film a lot more," shared Metcalf. "Because it's an opportunity to really, you know, really immerse yourself in a story and in a character for however many months, two, three, four months. You know, I mean, obviously there's a, there's a repetition to television, you know, but I think in film your just, you're freer. You know, you're freer acting-wise, and, you know, and, your just, you know, you're creating something that's you know, going to exist on film forever." Director James Dodson accepted the challenges associated with shooting a movie in a lively, bustling city of 22 million people, and navigating the cultural divide between the worlds of Hollywood and Bollywood. "I had forever heard that Mumbai, you know, Bollywood makes twice as many movies as we do," explained Dodson. "And I just assumed that they would make movies the same way that we do. And they really don't. They, they have a different custom. Many different customs. And I was humbled to learn how little I knew. I, I kind of thought we would take our Hollywoodfilmmaking style and impose it on Mumbai. And this was a silly notion of mine because nothing's going to move Mumbai in a direction Mumbai doesn't want to go in." With the principal photography taking place in Mumbai, India and additional photography in New York and San Francisco, "The Other End of the Line" was truly an international production. Indian producer Ashok Amritraj began working on the project five years ago. He collaborated with MGM to bring the screenplay to life. For Amritraj, the journey was personal. "This is the first time I've done one with Indian actors and American actors together, and I've sort of wanted to build this bridge between India and Asia and The West. And I think this was the opportunity to do that." Cast and crew learned the capital city of India is the largest metropolitan area in the world, and sometimes shutting down locations to shoot parts of the film was not possible due to the demand on businesses. Metcalf says one scene shot in Mumbai was particularly memorable for him. "There's actually one scene in the movie where Granger comes to India, and he's like running through traffic and trying to flag down a rickshaw, and that was kind of off-the-cuff, like guerrilla film-making. Like we didn't have that street locked off, those people driving those cars weren't part of our production. So I was actually running through India, Bombaytraffic. You know, so that was pretty exciting for me." "The Other End of the Line" opened across North America last Friday (October 31).
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