Archive for The Other End of the Line Press
Aug 25, 2010
I’ll Show You My Medicine Chest If You Show Me Yours
Every body fess up all of us have at one time or another peaked into someone’s medicine chest to see what goodies they might have hidden.
Once upon a time it was most likely to see what could be pinched for recreation. Or in my case it was just to see what others used for recreation. Nowadays my guess is it might be more “Oh look who needs Viagra.”
Though as I discovered last week instead of browsing the contents of other people’s medicine cabinets it might be a good idea to take a look at what is lurking inside our own.
Nov 02, 2008
Variety Film Review: The Other End of the Line
The title makes it sound like a Western, but “The Other End of the Line” is more of an Eastern-Western, offering a pretty savvy take on the romantic possibilities of subcontinental telemarketing. .. Some of scripter Tracey Jackson’s best material is in the call-center scenes, where often beleaguered, well-mannered Indians are abused daily over the phone. (“Can I get out of New Jersey?” one worker pleads. “Everyone’s swearing at me.” No, her supervisor says: “Everyone starts in New Jersey.”)
Oct 31, 2008
American Films Would Make Fun of India
Five years ago scriptwriter Tracey Jackson went to Hollywood with a clipping from The New York Times, perhaps the first article to report on the call centres in India. The article talked about young Indians working in Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai and pretending to be Americans for credit card company clients in the US.
“They would put on accents and say “Hello my name is Nancy,” Jackson recalls sitting in a cafe in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “And I thought this would be such a great idea for a transglobal love story.”
May 27, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter Film Review: The Other End of the Line
Bottom Line: A charming old-fashioned romantic comedy transposed to today’s global dating world. In the grand tradition of screwball comedies where the “players” try to get together but are constantly kept apart by their own subterfuges, the romantic arc is aptly exasperating as they struggle to make their connection. Best of all, we root for these two to get together. Screenwriter Tracey Jackson has perceptively created two characters who seem ideally suited to each other. Our match-making instincts are further stoked by the charismatic and engaging lead performances of Jesse Metcalfe and Shriya.
Nov 05, 2004
Tracey in India Today
Call centers put India on the world map. Now they have drawn Hollywood’s attention. Tracey Jackson, a long time Indophile, is scripting a movie on the phenomena.
