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Star Cast
Cooking with Stella
Don McKellar
Michael Laffont
Seema Biswas
Stella Elizabeth Matthews
Lisa Ray
Maya Chopra
Shriya Saran
Tannu
Vansh Bhardwaj
Anthony
Alexiane Perreault
Zara
Maury Chaykin
H.E. Mr. Durand
Kanhaiya Lal Kaithwas
Dhobi
Annie Desjardins
Sandy
Mulchand Dedhia
Vegetable Seller
Sue Macartney
Fiona
Daulat Ram Vaid
Inspector Dixit
Jaspal Sharma
Sub-Inspector
Simtia Bharti
Defence Attorney
Sushil Parwana
Judge
Terry Banting
Security Officer
Praveen Kocher
Butcher
Naresh Gosain
Chicken Wallah
Sohaila Kapoor
Aunty Kamla
Tilak Raj
Waiter
Umesh Srivastava
Priest
Deana Culp
American Embassy Official
Hitender Kumar
Immigration Officer
Mahesh Gahlot
Lecherous Old Man
Ruth Norfolk
Dorothy Durand
Nadeem Khan
Buddy #1
Bharat Vig
Buddy #2
Rasika Anil Agashe
Cook #1
Laxmi Rawel
Cook #2
Naresh Bhartiya
Cook #3
Mr. G.S. Bedi
Shopkeeper
Anurag Arora
Constable in Market
Ena Vohra
Helpful Woman
Sandhyi Bhatia
Reliable Looking woman
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Director:
Dilip Mehta
Producer:
David Hamilton , Deepa Mehta
Music:
Mychael Danna, Amritha Fernandes Bakshi
Screenplay:
Deepa Mehta, Dilip Mehta
Story:
Dilip Mehta, Deepa Mehta
Genres:
Comedy
Certification:
Parental guidance suggestedStatus:
Post-Production
Soundmix:
Dolby Digital

Plot Summary
Cooking with Stella
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 not until the guru-student relationship between Stella and Michael has been sorely tested.
Michael has learned many important lessons from his teacher ...including glorious traditional South Indian cooking. And Stella? Well.... let's just say dreams sometimes come true in unexpected ways.