mistress of spices

although this movie features the world's most beautiful woman (Aishwarya Rai) and Gurinder Chadha had a hand in the screenplay, even these formidable ladies could not save the innane story line. Rai plays a woman raised to serve people through spices who was transported to Oakland on a bed of fire as a child and cannot leave her spice shop or touch a human being without incurring the spices' wrath and wreaking destruction upon those around her. these rules fail to annoy her until she meets Dylan McDermott and suddenly yearns to be like other people. the most unbelievable element of the film is that Rai would actually fall for a second-rate actor like McDermott. the movie fails on many levels, but it's pretty fun to watch.