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I was lucky enough to go see the new movie, Today's Special, at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival on opening night thanks to my friend Shimi Rahim. The great cook book author and actress, Madhur Jaffrey was there. As were Aasif Mandvi fromThe Daily Show and director David Kaplan.
Shimi has written a wonderful review of the movie on the San Francisco Examiner. Please click here for the entire article.
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Today's Special, a moving story about a young man's dream to become a chef and a heartfelt tribute to the magic and mystery of Indian cooking, opened the28th San Francisco International Asian American film festival last night at theCastro Theatre. Written by Jonathan Bines and Aasif Mandvi (The Daily Show) and directed by David Kaplan (Year of the Fish), the film stars Mandvi as Samir, a disillusioned and frustrated chef who, through a turn of events, winds up running the family restaurant.Madhur Jaffrey,who is to Indian cookery what Julia Child was to French cookery, plays Samir's gentle and elegant mother. Legendary Indian actors Harish Patel and Naseerudin Shah play, respectively, Samir's father and Akbar, Samir's accidental but willing mentor.
Walking out of a press screening for Today's Special, I found myself in conversation with an older South Asian gentleman who thought the movie sucked. Well, not in so many words, but he thought it was formulaic and aimed to a mainstream audience that wouldn't get it. I disagreed. It would be so awesome to report that we got into a giant brawl, but we had a good exchange and parted ways with much to chew on.
For me, this was the realization that the quick, light-hearted review that I'd planned to write would need some nerdy background information.
So here's the deal: In1965, the US passed a new Immigration Act that removed national-origin quotas and lead to an exponential increase in the number of immigrants from non-European countries. This meant that a lot of young, hungry, ambitious South Asians came to the States around that time. These South Asians (desis, as we're called) had kids who are now in their 20s and 30s. These kids, especially those on the younger end of the demographic, assimilated into US culture, and began to walk away from the doctor/lawyer/engineer path to success that their parents tried to follow. Some even became actors and comedians.
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