Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary - with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as "diplomatic housewife" while Maya goes off to work, everything goes swimmingly for Stella. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his "cooking guru". But Stella's cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella's deceptions. Eventually Stella wins Tannu's full cooperation (and then some!). This unlikely partnership embarks on a much grander, riskier scam, which seems to bring disaster. An unexpected kind of justice is found, but ...

Starring:

Don McKellar, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Shriya Saran, Vansh Bhardwaj, Alexiane Perreault, Maury Chaykin, Kanhaiya Lal Kaithwas, Annie Desjardins, Mulchand Dedhia, Sue Macartney, Daulat Ram Vaid, Jaspal Sharma, Simtia Bharti, Sushil Parwana

Genre:

Comedy, Drama