The Mistress of Spices
Release date: May 5, 2006 More »
Director: Paul Mayeda Berges
Cast:
- Aishwarya Rai as Tilo
- Dylan McDermott as Doug
- Nitin Ganatra as Haroun Rehman
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Kwesi
- Caroline Chikezie as Myisha
- Anupam Kher as Geeta's Grandfather
- Shaheen Khan as Jagit's Mother
- Sonny Gill Dulay as Jagjit
- Nina Young as Doug's Mother
- Toby Marlow as Young Doug
- Padma Lakshmi as Geeta
- Zohra Sehgal as First Mother (as Zohra Segal)
- Paul Bhattacharjee as Satish - Geeta's dad Show All »
About:
In India, Tilo has the ability of foreseeing the future. When their parents are killed by bandits, she is kidnapped but escapes and is raised by the First Mother in a sort of traditional cult of spices. She becomes the Mistress of Spices and is sent to the Spice Bazaar in San Francisco, with the mission of following three basic rules: help her clients to accomplish their desires with the spices, but never hers; never leave the store; and never be touched in the skin. When she meets the handsome American architect Doug, she feels a great attraction and desire for him, breaking the first rule and being punished by the spices
Producer: Jane Barclay, Susan Cartsonis, Gurinder Chadha, Steve Christian, James Clayton, Mark Hubbard, Hannah Leader, Deepak Nayar, Tabrez Noorani, Duncan Reid, Pravesh Sahni
Writers: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
