This movie is pure fiction. It has been shot like a documentary to make the audience feel that it's real. I don't think I can express my frustration and anger when half way through the movie I realized that the director has used the documentary style to probably cheat the audience in to watching this movie. Maharashtrian cuisine is simple and less know but has its charm and appeal to the locals hailing that part of India including me. This is probably the first attempt made to bring awareness about Marathi cuisine or at least that's what this movie makes you think but after finding out that this whole story narrated about the chef sticking to his roots and going out of his way to realize his dream is not real, this feels more like an insult to the cuisine. The director has gone out of his way to make the movie feel like a documentary with critics interviews, reviews, customers comments, characters with story lines, timeline...although everything shown in the movie, as mentioned above, is a fiction. I love fiction but what make this fiction wrong is it is not shown like a typical movie about a chef (like "Today's Special" starring Asif Mandvi & Naseeruddin Shah) but rather the attempt to make it feel like a documentary knowing that everything being shown is entirely FAKE. I feel sick just thinking about people watching this movie and finding out that this is just a fiction. This would have made an excellent fiction movie but it is not and that is such a shame and a lost opportunity to bring awareness about the Marathi cuisine.
