![]() ![]() On a remote tropical island, a girl renamed Tilottama ("Sesame"), Tilo for short, learned the use of spices for cuisine, healing and talismans from a wise crone (the venerable Zohra Sehgal). Otherwise, they preserve most of the tale of a spice grocer with mystical powers and a superheroish origin story. ![]() On the one hand, Chadha and Berges change romantic bodice-ripping pirates to dangerous ones on the other, they have deleted the subplot about the battered woman Lalita and transformed the romantic lead from an exotic man named Raven to a more conventional "Doug." ![]() The adaptation of Sunnyvale writer Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni's 1997 book gains in glossiness what it loses in grit. This time, the team of Paul Mayeda Berges (former local writer/director) and his spouse and co-writer, Gurinder Chadha (director of Bride and Bend It Like Beckham) really succeed in putting Rai over. That's how it works Jane Austen heroines aren't meant to drive men wild with desire. Unfortunately, the film that introduced her to the west, Bride & Prejudice, failed to make her as popular in America as she is in India. WITH EYES like smoky topazes, and lips that make Angelina Jolie look pursed-mouthed, Aishwarya Rai has one of the most celebrated faces on the planet. ![]()
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