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MovieSphere+Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.
"The Mistress of Spices" reps a brave but flawed attempt at that most unforgiving of contemporary genres, magical realism. Tale trades too much on the beauty of lead thesp Aishwarya Rai and too little on the story's social and emotional…
FILMS - Film Reviews."Poor choice of subject material". At heart a cross cultural romance with a mystic theme, The Mistress Of Spices should appeal to women and Rai's millions of Bollywood fans. But the snail's pace at which Berges unfolds…
Such is the premise of "Mistress of Spices," Paul Mayeda Berges's film-directing debut. Mr. Berges wrote the movie with Gurinder Chadha, who was also his writing partner on "Bride and Prejudice" and, with Guljit Bindra, on "Bend It Like…
