"Twinkle, twinkle....so what?"
The film starts off as a typical Lasse Hallstrom confection - a light, picaresque, whimsical offering of little consequence - but slowly a film with more bite and depth begins to emerge, which the director handles very effectively. The commercial attraction is the on-screen sparring of two mighty actors in Helen Mirren and Om Puri, and on that level the film and the actors deliver extremely well, but the revelation is Manish Dayal as the rising chef son Hassan with a wonderfully detailed and sympathetic performance. A.R. Rahman also contributes a winning score that bridges both typical Indian and European-style film scores to great effect. Once the film moves past throwaway racial stereotyping and the effects of racism impinge strongly on the characters, the film truly steps up a notch and quality shines through.
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