Name: The Mistress Of Spices
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Duration: T1H36M
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott, Ayesha Dharker, Nitin Chandra Ganatra

Billed as an Indian immigrant version of 'Chocolat' - a magic realist fairytale about a woman and her spice shop.

Tilo (Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai) is new to America, and holds a magical powers over the spices she sells in her store. Provided, that is, she adheres to the rules of being a 'mistress of spice' - never leave the store, never touch anyone, love only the spices. Then she meets Doug (McDermot). The spices affect seems linked to Tilo, and the more she falls for him, the more the spices start to misbehave for her customers.

96 minsUSA, UK

DramaFantasy

All Reviews (7)

Director:: Paul Mayeda Berges (writer: Bride & Prejudice, Bend It Like Beckham)
Writer:: Gurinder ChadhaPaul Mayeda Berges
Cast:: Aishwarya RaiDylan McDermottAyesha DharkerNitin Chandra Ganatra

The Mistress Of Spices / Reviews

Variety

Beautiful but lifeless, poetic but unelevated, "The Mistress of Spices" reps a brave but flawed attempt at that most unforgiving of contemporary genres, magical realism...

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New Zealand Herald

The most that can be said for the film is that it will put you in the mood for a curry...

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Hollywood Reporter

Despite the ethereal presence of Aishwarya Rai, this dose of magic realism es off almost from the start, plagued by an artificiality that extends to a central romance crucial to the story...

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Empire Magazine

An ambitious attempt at an Indian immigrant version of Chocolat, this has amiable romance but little magic. Aishwarya Rais undoubted screen presence keeps this consistently watchable...

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BBC

Despite its colourful eastern palette and amiable performances from Bollywood starlet Aishwarya Rai and American hunk Dylan McDermott, the drama is as bland as a cucumber sandwich...

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