Mistress of spices is an Indian Film released in 2005 is based on Indian myth of spices. It is written by Gurinder Chadha and directed by Paul Mayeda Berges. Aishwarya is playing the leading role as a mitress of spices named Tilo. Tilo is a gifted child as foreseeing the future. She is unwated child but due to her extra qualities her parents become rich. Later killed by dacoits she reached on a secluded island where Holy Mother makes her mistress of spices. She has been trained to know the characteristics of each spice and has been selected as protector through spices for the Western land people.There are some rules behind the myth of spices as;
- Every person has a special spice
- Spices have different characteristics like power of healing, success, love, hate, lust etc.
Being a mistress of spices Tilo has to obey some rule not to break the myth or they can harm on which they have been used by Tilo.
Rule 1 Don’t use the spice for herself only to heal other miseries.
Rule 2 Don’t leave the spices alone.
Rule 3 Don’t touch a second skin
If in any case rule be disobeyed, everything would go wrong. Everything was going right till Tilo trapped by the sight of an amorous man. One by one Tilo break all the three rules as being mistress of spices and in return spices start harming her customers to punish her. She gets distressed as she feels sorry for her customers. At last she resolved to go back to spices and never break the rule again her life. For doing this she asks for one night with her lover. On her return to the spices leaving the worldly desires aside, Holy Mother comes in her vision and blessed her with reward in return to her loyalty to the spices.
Film is totally based on imagination as Ha so we can go for the maximum extent of imagination so does happen in the film. A loophole even then in this mythical film remains as story about Tilo boyfriend Dough (Dylan McDermott) remain thirsty. Although writer goes for the right thing to accessories the Lover with a comparative myth, I think she forgets afterwards being involved in creating the meeting scene of lover that she has to complete that myth when Dough great grandfather died before telling him his myth. I think it would be more interesting and logical if Dough presents as an equal carrier of myth and this would make him a suitable choice for Tilo. But here Writer fails to delineate stronger character of dough who really deserve To be lover of Tilo.
There is no song in the movie only sound track of an old song after the intermission of film. What if in the start after getting the title of mistress of spice a song could be sung in that store to describe the characteristics of spices in musical way. Rest cinematography, direction and other technical ingredients are well handled. It is a good piece of art but would excel if written properly and attentively.
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