The Hundred Foot Journey (film)

The HundredFoot Journey is a 2014 American comedydrama film directed by Lasse Hallstrm from a screenplay written by Steven Knight, adapted from Richard Morais 2010 novel of the same name. The film stars Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon and tells the story of a feud between two adjacent restaurants in a French town one operated by a recently relocated Indian family and the other a Michelinstarred restaurant.

The Kadam family ran a restaurant in Mumbai. The secondoldest son, Hassan Manish Dayal, was being groomed to replace his mother Juhi Chawla as the restaurants main cook. However, a mob attacks and firebombs the restaurant over an election dispute. Papa Kadam Om Puri and his family evacuate the guests, but Mama is killed. Seeking asylum in Europe, the family first settles in London, where their residence proves illsuited for a restaurant. They depart for mainland Europe.Shortly after entering France, the brakes on Papas van fail near SaintAntoninNobleVal in the MidiPyrnes. Marguerite Charlotte Le Bon, a sous chef at an upscale French restaurant named Le Saule Pleureur The Weeping Willow, passes by and offers to help the Kadams find an auto repair shop and a guest house. She brings the Kadams to her apartment and treats them to cold food. Papa is amazed at the quality of the food in the village and its availability and discovers that Marguerite made the food herself. ........

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