The Mistress of Spices

(2005)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 166 votes

Genres: Drama, Romance, Fantasy

Year: 2005

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: United States of America, India

Director: Paul Mayeda Berges

Cast: Айшвария Рай Баччан, Дилан Макдермотт, Nitin Ganatra, Адевале Акинойе-Агбаже, Кэролайн Чикези, Anupam Kher, Shaheen Khan, Sonny Gill, Nina Young, Toby Marlow

Plot

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.

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.