Tilo is an outsider from India who has to come to terms with her new country, America. But as a ‘Mistress of Spices’, there are certain rules she must follow. Tilo runs a spice store in San Francisco and has a magical gift of seeing into her customers’ lives and desires. When Doug - a handsome, enigmatic American with a secret past - enters her store, Tilo’s own desires are stirred for the first time. Will she choose forbidden love for an American over devotion to her spices and her traditions?
- producers:
- Deepak Nayar
- director(s):
- Paul Mayeda Berges
- cast:
- Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott
- photography:
- February 2005
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