The Mistress of Spices (2005), an English film by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha, Berges and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, based upon the novel The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, stars Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott and Ayesha Dharker.