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Synopsis: Samir is a sous chef in Manhattan. He quits when he's not promoted - his boss says his cooking lacks soul. He decides to find an unpaid internship in Paris, but his father suffers a heart attack keeping him home for a few weeks. Samir must run the family's failing Indian restaurant in Queens. He can't cook Indian food, so things get dire when the chef quits: Samir tracks down Akbar, a cabbie who claims to have cooked for British royalty in Bombay. Akbar cooks with mind, heart, and gut - and offers philosophy as well. With the help of Carrie, whom he met at the Manhattan restaurant, Samir begins to enjoy the work. But will his father approve, and if not, what then?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): David Kaplan
Production: Inimitable Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
2009
99 min
$317,831
Website
244 Views


Uh, just calm down, calm down.

Hello? I'll call you back.

I have a bad connection.

I can't hear you.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you.

Um...

So, dad, I wanted

to tell you that

I'm probably...

Hey! Hey.

Hello.

Hello.

Please, please come in.

We are going to

be open for lunch

in just five minutes.

Oh, we were just

looking at the menu,

thank you.

You can eat in, take away,

Whatever your pleasure.

Free papadam.

Listen, dad, I...

I need to tell you

something, okay?

So tell.

I'm going to paris.

Why?

Well, I quit my job.

Why?

Well, I'm doing a stage

With this very,

very important chef.

Stage.

What is stage?

Well, it's like a job.

Like a job.

I see.

What does it pay?

This "like a job"?

It doesn't pay anything, okay?

It's like an apprenticeship.

I see.

So you are quitting

your job where you

are making money

To go to France to

do the same job, mmm?

For free?

You are a bloody

brilliant businessman.

I didn't come here

to argue with you, okay?

That this could be

a tremendous opportunity.

For what?

Going backwards?

What's wrong with you?

Do you know that

you're a bloody old man?

Keep it down.

If your brother

were alive today...

He would've been a doctor

and you would've

been respected,

And he would've had a wife,

and a family and kids,

I understand and

I'm doing nothing...

Badtameez!

You are making mockery

of your brother's memory.

I'm not making

a mockery, okay?

I'm just...

Your poor mother

still thinks a woman

will make you change.

But you are not interested

in bloody anything.

Money, business,

a career, wife,

family. Nothing?

You just want to be a loser.

So, go, go, go.

Go to France,

go to England,

go to china.

Marry a bloody

chinese clown-girl,

And invite your mother

to come and cry at

the bloody wedding!

Dad, relax, all right?

Would you just...

I just came to tell you...

You okay?

Dad. Dad!

Samir. Samir.

Dad? Dad, come down,

come down. Oh, my god.

Here, sit down, sit down,

sit down, sit down, okay.

You okay? You okay?

Dad, sit down, sit down.

Oh, my god.

Oh, my god.

Dad!

Call 911!

Call 911!

Dad. Dad! Dad. Help.

That boy's killed his father.

Dad. You're gonna

be fine, okay?

Don't worry.

Don't worry, ma.

I'll take care

of the restaurant.

Yeah, hi, jfk to paris.

Um, next week.

Yeah, the 13th.

Okay.

I'll hold, yes.

So this guy, he rips the teabag,

And pours it into the water.

I don't like teabags.

Will you shut up?

So I tell him,

"arre-bhai, that's

not the way you do it.

"you take the teabag

and you dip it into

the water like this."

Okay, so now he's very thankful.

So I go to the toilet,

and when I come back,

guess what?

He's putting

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Aasif Mandvi

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala (born March 5, 1966), known professionally as Aasif Mandvi (, AH-sif MAHND-vee), is a British-American actor and comedian. He began appearing as an occasional contributing correspondent on The Daily Show on August 9, 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent. He is the lead actor, co-writer and producer of the web series Halal in the Family, which premiered on Funny or Die in 2015, and an actor, writer and co-producer of the HBO comedy series The Brink. Mandvi is also the author of the book No Land's Man. more…

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