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Overview

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5.4/10   1,939 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Gurinder Chadha (screenplay) &
Paul Mayeda Berges (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 April 2006 (UK) more
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Tagline:
One spice for passion. And one woman who knows its name.
Plot:
In India, Tilo has the ability of foreseeing the future. When their parents are killed by bandits, she... more | add synopsis
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Very bad adaptation of a good book more (44 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Aishwarya Rai ... Tilo

Dylan McDermott ... Doug
Nitin Ganatra ... Haroun Rehman

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ... Kwesi
Caroline Chikezie ... Myisha
Anupam Kher ... Geeta's Grandfather
Shaheen Khan ... Jagit's Mother
Sonny Gill Dulay ... Jagjit
Nina Young ... Doug's Mother
Toby Marlow ... Young Doug

Padma Lakshmi ... Geeta
Zohra Sehgal ... First Mother (as Zohra Segal)
Paul Bhattacharjee ... Satish - Geeta's dad

Ayesha Dharker ... Hameeda - Haroun's neighbor
Rebecca Bowden ... Bougainvillea Girl
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violent images and sensuality
Runtime:
92 min | Canada:92 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Director Paul Mayeda Berges cast Aishwarya Rai for the role of Tilo while she was working on Bride & Prejudice (2004). He gave her the script to read and was interested in the part of Tilo, and so Paul cast her. more
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Continuity: When Tilo makes "paan" for Kwesi, she is shown putting some betel nuts and finally a cardamom in the paan. However, upon revelation, a clove is seen in the paan which was never there before. more
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References Chocolat (2000) more
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Don't Shake Me Up more

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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Very bad adaptation of a good book, 3 April 2007
1/10
Author: venus86-1 from India

The movie is awful.no two ways about it. The directer and the screenplay writers have completely killed the story. This movie is based on Chitra Devakaruni Banerjee's novel by the same title. Go read the book. Chances are you are going to hate the movie even more after reading the book. I don't even want to waste my time explaining what went wrong with the movie,but this is the worst adaptation of a book i have ever seen. I am amazed how did the writer allow her book to be so badly adapted into a movie. The writers have killed all the essential elements of the book which made the book good. The film,instead is nonsensical and even ridiculous. Don't waste your time watching the movie. buying the book would be a better utilization of your time and money.

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