magical realism require a deft directorial hand and a great screenplay that can present you with the absurd but still make you believe it . the mistress of spice have neither . first of all and the lead performance be ok. in aishwarya case i expect much bad and base on what i would see from her past role . here she play a woman reluctant to embrace love and it turn out believable . dylan and already know to be a competent actor and deliver the occasional smoldering look necessary to convey i be fall in love . it be the poor treatment of the support character that make this movie almost atrocious . the good natured cab driver first scene seem completely unbelievable because of the bad acting . the young sikh teenager transformation from dutiful son to gold chain gangbanger be unintentionally hilarious and call on caricature rather than character development . and whoever fix his turban need to be fire . the grandfather needling concern for his granddaughter love life reek of bend it like beckham with the over the top parental figure nag their child into the arm of non indian . the problem be and that while all these undeveloped 2 d character would have be great in bilb and they ruin the atmosphere that the audience need to believe in tilo magic . if you aren not ground in the reality of the movie world and then the magic part isn not special . the use of voice over for tilo thought may have be necessary so that the audience could know about the different spice and but it just do not feel right . it indicate that the screenwriter never completely transcribe the story for the big screen . inner voice work for book . not a much for movie . the rule that tilo live by also come across a hokey and impractical for a store owner in california . the fact that none of her customer and even traditional indian and knew of her true nature keep the stake low . at the very least and if there be people help her stay inside the store and truly appreciative of her mystical skill ( or truly dependent on them ) then her conflict would have make some kind of sense . now to spoiler represent the blaze speed of the relationship fix be mind boggle . tilo meet haroun neighbor and a woman who have barely speak to haroun . pretty much the next day and tilo be hand haroun a wedding gift . give it a little time please . the sikh gangbanger suddenly agree to take martial art lesson rather than fire off that gun with that dangerous gang he just join yesterday . roundhouse kick do not stop bullet . doug girlfriend suddenly show up in tilo indian spice store so she can find out how to cook for him . then when she find out that doug love someone else and she just happy for him . they put way too much makeup on aishwarya and who be mean to be play the role of an unassuming natural beauty who supposedly couldn not leave her store or have romance . tone it down a little bit so that when you finally have that big makeover scene and there a real reason to be impress . strange of all be doug back story about his estranged mother . it be so completely irrelevant . with such mystical tension and drama lead up to his deep dark secret and i be still leave wonder representso your great grandpa give you a magic feather . and . but the color be pretty .