Tilo
Search results
The Mistress of Spices is a 2005 American romantic drama film by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha and Berges. It is based upon the 1997 novel Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The film stars Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott.
The Mistress of Spices, (1997), set in contemporary Oakland, California, is a novel by Indian American writer and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Plot
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- 1997
Apr 21, 2006 · The Mistress of Spices: Directed by Paul Mayeda Berges. With Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Dylan McDermott, Nitin Ganatra, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An immigrant in San Francisco brings Indian magic with her through spices.
- (5.6K)
- Drama, Romance
- Paul Mayeda Berges
- 2006-04-21
Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Mistress of Spices (Doubleday/Anchor), written in a unique style that blends prose and poetry, magic and reality, was named one of the top 100 books of the 20th Century by the San Francisco Chronicle.
A classic work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the mystical art of spices.
- Paperback
One day, a handsome architect bachelor enters her store. In India, Tilo has the ability to foresee the future. When her 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.
Feb 17, 1997 · The eponymous ‘Mistress of Spices’ is Tilottama, an old woman—old on the outside only—who has been magically transported to America from an island, where she and other young women were trained in the magic of spices by an Old Mistress.
