Nina’s Heavenly Delights
Pratibha Parmar/94min/UK/2006

This debut feature film from award winning director Pratibha Parmar is guaranteed to spice up your cold winter nights.

Nina had left home under a cloud after a row with her father, but when he suddenly dies, Nina is forced to return to face her past. With a few secrets to hide, and some unfinished family business awaiting her return, Nina is shocked to find her father’s beloved restaurant The New Taj in disarray, with debts aplenty and no one to carry on the legacy of making the region’s finest curries. In an attempt to save the family restaurant and carry out her father’s final wish, Nina enters the Best of the West Curry Competition. Aided by her best mate Bobbi, a wannabe Bollywood drag queen, and Lisa, the beguiling new co-owner of the restaurant, Nina set’s out to put The New Taj back on the map, and finds herself along the way. Will Nina also find love amidst the perfect blend of spices?

Cross-cultural, frank and funny, Nina’s Heavenly Delights turns up the heat with a blend of sumptuous cooking, top-notch direction and some truly simmering chemistry between the leads.