American comedy-drama “The Hundred-Foot Journey” will premier today at the Star Cineplex in the Bashundhara City in the capital’s Panthapath area. Starring Om Puri and Helen Mirren, the story revolves around the silent competition between two restaurants in the same French neighbourhood: one restaurant is managed by an Indian family, the other by a Michelin-starred French chef.
The Kadam family, who has had a restaurant business in Mumbai, has to relocate to Europe after tragedy strikes. Shortly after crossing the border between Switzerland and France, the brakes on Papa Kadam’s van fail near a village. Marguerite, a sous chef at an up-scale French restaurant named Le Saule Pleureur, passes by and offers to help the Kadams find an auto repair shop and a guest house. She also brings the Kadams to her apartment and treats them to food. Papa is amazed at the quality of the food in the village and its availability. He learns of an abandoned restaurant building on the outskirts of town available for purchase. Seeing this as divine providence, Papa decides to renovate it into an Indian restaurant named Maison Mumbai, which happens to be across the French restaurant where Marguerite works at, and which is owned by Madame Mallory, the Michelin-starred head chef.
