Tandoori Love
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Directed byOliver Paulus
Written by
- Stefan Hillebrand
- Oliver Paulus
Produced byValerie Fischer
Starring
- Lavinia Wilson
- Vijay Raaz
- Martin Schick
- Shweta Agarwal
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| Directed by | Oliver Paulus |
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| Produced by | Valerie Fischer |
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| Cinematography | Daniela Knapp |
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| Music by | Marcel Vaid |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | English Swiss German |
Tandoori Love is a 2008 Swiss comedy film about the misadventures of an Indian cook named Raja in Switzerland.[1][2] The film, directed by Oliver Paulus,[2][3] was called Switzerland's first "Bollywood film".[4][5] It premiered at the 2008 Goa film festival.[1][6]
In the Bernese Oberland, Sonja works as sommelier at "L'Auberge du Cerf", the restaurant owned by her boyfriend Martin. She meets Rajah, an Indian cook, with whom she falls in love. Rajah's cooking is soon integrated in the menu of the restaurant and receives immense success. But the original employer of the cook, Priya, a Mumbai actress, arrives and insists that Rajah is to go back with her to India.
Cast
- Lavinia Wilson as Sonja
- Vijay Raaz as Rajah
- Martin Schick as Markus
- Shweta Agarwal as Priya
- Tamal Ray Chowdhury as Kamaal Khan
- Max Rüdlinger as Gusti
- Peter Glauser as Stammtisch Stöff
- René Blum as Karli
- Verena Zimmermann as Rosmarie Kübli
- Asif Basra as T.V. Kumar, the producer
- Aasif Sheikh as Superstar Ramesh
- Gilles Tschudi as Jules Renaud
- Ganesh Yadav as J.R., the director
- Asha Sachdev as Priya's mother
- Johanna Bantzer as Anita
