The Mistress Of Spices (DVD)

...mistress of spices; she has the ability to understand them and use them to help others and the gift of second sight. She has been sent from India to San Francisco, to cure the spiritual and emotional ills of those around her with her spices. But there are rules she must follow. She can never touch the skin of another person, she can never leave the shop and she must never use the spices for her own purposes. But when a handsome stranger comes off ...
...not be able to bend the rules. Director Paul Mayeda Berges has made a sweet but rather humdrum addition to the romance genre. It is trying to be a modern romantic fable, but is so packed with sugar that it feels saccharine. There is too great an emphasis on the cod Indian mysticism that underlies the story. So we get women in saris trotting out implausible codes of ethics, fire-walking and people literally talking to spices in a clumsy attempt at ...

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...themselves in a different culture? The mistress of spices is the tale of Tilo, a lady with the gift of second sight and who has been trained to use spices to help customers who visit he store in San Francisco. As a child she was trained by first mother to understand the power of spices and use them to help others. In doing so she must dedicate her life to the spices, following 3 simple rules: never to leave the store she runs, touch the skin of another ...
...runs a store called the Spice Bazaar and has many regular customers who we learn a lot about through the course of the film. These include Haroun, an immigrant taxi driver who dreams of making it big in the US and is very protective of Tilo, a grandfather played by Anupan Kher, who is worried about how Americanised his grandaughter is becoming, Kwesi, an African American who is trying to impress his girlfriend and Jagjit, a young man who is being ...

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