''Jadoo'' is a food-feud family comedy feature film set in Leicester, released in cinemas on 6 September 2013. It is written and directed by filmmaker Amit Gupta. It tells the story of two brothers, Raja and Jagi, who are both chefs, but fall out catastrophically. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides of Belgrave Road in Leicester; one cooking starters and the other main courses, and refuse to talk to one another. Raja's daughter Shalini, attempts to get the brothers talking again. She hatches a plan and asks them to work together to cook her a perfect Indian wedding banquet.

Plot

Two brothers, both wonderful chefs, fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half – one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides of the same road, and spend the next twenty years trying to outdo each other. Neither brother will admit it but they both know they are not entirely successful without the ‘other half’ of the menu. It takes Raja's daughter, Shalini, a successful London lawyer, marrying a man from a different ethnic background, to reunite them. She is planning her marriage and is determined that they will both attend. Can the men bury the hatchet without actually burying the kitchen knife? Shalini returns home to Leicester for the Hindu festival of Holi to tell her father and her uncle that she's getting married. But it takes a challenge from a sharp ambitious new restaurant owner who tries to put them out of business and a threat from Shalini that she will not have a traditional Indian wedding before the brothers finally start to unravel the secret behind the quarrel which has lasted two decades.

Cast

Amara Karan Amara Karunakaran (born 1984), known professionally as Amara Karan, is an English actress who made her film début as Rita in Wes Anderson's '' The Darjeeling Limited''. The film premièred at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Karan's second film r ...

as Shalini *

Harish Patel Harish Patel (born 5 July 1953) is an Indian character actor. He has appeared in a variety of Hindi films, but in recent years has begun to appear in American projects like reimagination of '' Four Weddings and a Funeral'' on Hulu. His latest p ...

as Raja *

Kulvinder Ghir Kulvinder Ghir (born 10 August 1965) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known as one of the cast members in the BBC sketch show '' Goodness Gracious Me''. He is also known for playing Aslam in the 1987 Yorkshire-based film '' Ri ...

as Jagi *

Tom Mison Thomas James Mison (born 23 July 1982)''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''. Ancestry.com; accessed 6 February 2014. is an English film, television, and theatre actor, voice artist, and writer. He has had leading ...

as Mark * Ray Panthaki as Rak Sharma *

Madhur Jaffrey Madhur Jaffrey CBE (née Bahadur; born 13 August 1933) is an Indian-British-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook ...

as herself * Ravi Morjaria as himself

Production

The co-writer, director and producers of Resistance brought their team to Leicester, UK, to shoot Jadoo.

plays Shalini. Oscar-nominated cinematographer Roger Pratt (''

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'') has returned to his hometown to shoot the film. Eddie Hamilton edited Jadoo.

Reception

''Jadoo'' was not warmly received by David Gritten of ''

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''; he concluded that it was "dreadfully predictable". Roger Pratt was praised, the film being described as "ravishingly photographed".David Gritten (5 September 2013
"Jadoo, review"
''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 2013-09-14.

References

*HeyUGuys (31 July 2013).
Exclusive: New Poster for British-Asian Comedy Jadoo
. Retrieved 17 August 2013. *Pukaar News (16 April 2013).
Exclusive interview with Jadoo writer & director
. Retrieved 17 August 2013.

External links

*{{IMDb title, 2180423 2013 films British comedy films Films about food and drink Films scored by Stephen Warbeck 2010s English-language films 2010s British films