
Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary - with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as "diplomatic housewife" while Maya goes off... (Full plot summary below)
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Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary - with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as "diplomatic housewife" while Maya goes off to work, everything goes swimmingly for Stella. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his "cooking guru". But Stella's cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella's deceptions. Eventually Stella wins Tannu's full cooperation (and then some!). This unlikely partnership embarks on a much grander, riskier scam, which seems to bring disaster. An unexpected kind of justice is found, but not until the guru-student relationship between Stella and Michael has been sorely tested. Michael has learned many important lessons from his teacher ...including glorious traditional South Indian cooking. And Stella? Well.... let's just say dreams sometimes come true in unexpected ways.
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| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunA subtle social comedy with an upstairs/downstairs sort of flavour. |
| Globe and MailRick GroenMeant to be a funny clash of cultures but, suddenly and with scant warning, it turns into a confused clamour of genres. |
| Total FilmEmma DibdinBiswas aside, performances are uninspired and director Dilip Mehta mars his third act with a moralising ending that's neither plausible or earned. |
| GuardianAndrew Pulver[An] unexceptional comedy that resembles Deepa's Canadian-Indian hybrids such as Bollywood/Hollywood rather than the heartfelt social-conscience dramas Water and Earth. |
| User ReviewIan DReally nice movie. Funny entertaining and close to the Indian culture. The mixing if east and west |
| User ReviewCorey MFor a first full feature movie I think it's pretty good! I felt the characters were well a little one dimensional but perhaps that was a tool of the author to show good vs evil. Stella did a fantastic job of showing her two faced role. A good thinking movie! |
| User ReviewPhpfast FFunny enjoyable movie that intersects the luxury of a forgein life into the poor local life in Delhi. Stella's "Robin hood" approach is both funny and sad, in her survivalist approach with the family she is paid to look out for. Real and lovely film. |
| User ReviewChristine BAll you have to do is read the synopsis on Flixster and you'll know the whole plot line. I thought it would be a mouthwatering cooking story but it's really a quirky comedic con movie in which Ottawa meets Bollywood! I don't care for Don McKellar as an actor and although I loved Lisa Ray in Water, her character in this movie came off as bitchy. The two characters that I did enjoy watching were Seema Biswas' Stella and Shriya Saran as Tannu. |
| User ReviewNancy SSweet and saucy movie about Canadians in India and their cook. Don McKeller plays his usual naive and insecure self who trys to befriend Stella and get her to teach him how to cook Indain food. But Stella has been cooking up more then just the meals! Great story, characters and backdrop |
| User ReviewPaula KCould have been a lot better than it was if it had more focus. |