Name these Two Dollywood Movies

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It is time to start shopping for DVDs. Little help?

  1. I was in Qatar and saw a trailer for a cute Dollywood movie. It was meant to be a crossover for the US market. A girl in India works in a call center. The company gives her classes in how to pass as an American. She falls in love over the phone and flies to Seattle to meet the American. She is comically pursued by he parents. (The father is the grocery store manager from the Raisin Bran commercials.)

  2. I just saw one scene on TV or someplace. The Raisin Bran man is the Dad again. His very California daughter brings home a report card with a 3.85 average. “She has a learning disability!” he cries. Hilarity ensues.

Any ideas?

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I presume that you’re talking about Bollywood, the Indian film industry. There’s also Dhallywood, the Bangladeshi film industry, but that doesn’t seem to be what you mean.

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The second one is a TV movie called Acceptance. The father is played by Ajay Mehta, the Fiber One guy(not Raisin Bran).

I’m not sure on the first movie but i’ll try to find out what it is.

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It sounds like the first movie is one called Americanizing Shelley. You can check out the synosis and see if that’s it.

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Thank you all.

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Fiber One, not Raisin Bran.
Bollywood, not Dollywood.

Americanizing Shelley is not it. (I like the tag line “You can’t curry love.”) It is not about a call center girl.

Acceptance is the correct movie, but the reviews are so bad, I will give it a pass.

So we are still looking for one movie, the one about the call center girl.

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Possibly “The Other End of the Line” although I don’t see the guy from the cereal commercial in the cast. The IMDB plot description is, “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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I only know of two Dollywood movies, 9 to 5 and Rhinestone. This is neither.

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That looks like fun. Another, in the same vein, is Outsourced, about an American call center operator who travels to India to train his replacements.

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D(olly Parton) (and B)ollywood… sir, I would like to invest in this venture.

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There is a theme park partly owned by Dolly Parton called Dollywood:

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Slight hijack:

Of course, Dollywood gets derision for being a redneck wonderland, but it’s actually very nice, as far as theme parks go. She is involved in the running of the place, and makes sure there are nice touches everywhere. So yeah, you can get deep-fried Twinkies there, but there’s also lots of flowers and trees and stuff. I was pleasantly surprised when I took my kids there a couple of years ago.

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Just to throw in some random trivia: there’s also Nollywood, based in Nigeria, which is doing booming business in the African video market these days.

Your 419 dollars at work. :stuck_out_tongue:

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The Other End of the Line that’s it! Now to see if it is on DVD.

Thank you.