Sepia Mutiny's favorite Desi Playboy never ceases to amaze. His movie "One Dollar Curry" opened up this week in Paris to pretty flattering coverage - Sify reports & graciously links back to Sepia Mutiny
"One Dollar Curry" by France-based Indian filmmaker, journalist and writer Vijay Singh takes a comic look at tolerance while lifting the curtain on an exotic side of the French capital unknown to many visitors.... "One Dollar Curry" is set in the French capital's well-established home of immigrants from the subcontinent, the 10th district on the northern side, packed with grocery stores, restaurants, clothing stores and video rentals with cheap "phone home" facilities, bringing colour and exotic spicy smells to the grey streets.
Its star however is Vikram Chatwal, a New Yorker whose family runs a chain of hotels and restaurants in the United States.
He plays Nishan, a young Sikh political refugee who hawks curry from a cart in the streets but claims to be related to a line of chefs who cooked for the great names of the world from the Moghul emperors to Winston Churchill and Michael Jackson.
Word on the street is that Chatwal extensively researched the role by dismissing the maid for an evening and doing his own dishes before going to bed.
The Times of India has more.
Previous SM coverage on Chatwal - One More Dream for Chatwal and ON the Trail of Vikram Chatwal
