India Synopsis
“One spice for passion. And one woman who knows its name.”
Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.
Audience Engagement
138 audience reviews — more than 94% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 92th percentile among India films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Mistress of Spices. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Drama + Romance in India
356 India titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Romance genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Mistress of Spices itself).
The 2004–2006 India Window
The Mistress of Spices holds position #85 of 152 India films in the 2004–2006 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in India, 454 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Mistress of Spices premiered alongside 57 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 57 other India films in 2005.
The 513th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Mistress of Spices, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- spice · 1
- mysticism · 1
- california · 20
- new love · 11
- san francisco · 8
- based on novel or book · 288
- woman director · 246
- magic · 84
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,238 of 1,983 India films indexed here (38th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.3 points below the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Drama productions specifically: #787 of 1,132 (top 70%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | United States of America, India, United Kingdom |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Isle of Man Film, Kintop Pictures, Capitol Films, Ingenious Media |
| Runtime | 1h 32m |
| Release Date | September 11, 2005 |
| IMDb | tt0407998 |