Reza Mahammad, Food Network UK’s top chef and main talent headlines at 2015 Plett Food Film Festival
As an honoured guest and festival patron, Reza will be warming up Plett with his creative and special sensory experience with Indian and Western flavours on 11 July during the festival’s film premier of The Lunchbox. Delighted fans will also have an opportunity to meet Reza on the 9th and 10th as he mingles with guests during the other films premiered at the Plett Food Film Festival.
Reza Mahammad is the hugely popular and flamboyant TV chef and owner of the renowned Star of India restaurant in Kensington, London and has recently completed a new 25 episode series with Jenny Morris entitled Reza and Jenny’s Food Academy which is set to launch across the Food Network in July.
Drawing from his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian food, Reza combines Indian and Western flavours to stunning effect, delivered in an informal, humorous style. Spice and life become intertwined on the final night of the Plett Food Film Festival with the food styles of Reza and premier of The Lunchbox film, directed by Ritesh Batra. Guests will enter an Indian-inspired courtyard at the historical White House Theatre for a demonstration by the irrepresible Reza Mahammad. Foodies will be tantalised with Reza’s themed canapés for a sensory experience as they watch the film, a foretaste of flavours to come. The Spice Notes installation adds to a night of intrigue.
The Lunchbox features the star-rated performances of Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. The film is centred around a middle class housewife, Ila who tries to add some spice to her marriage. She hopes that new recipes will arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares him a daily lunchbox for work and it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker. Thus begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They each discover a new sense of self in the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes and dreams.
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