A lightweight and sentimental exercise that succeeds at little except maybe inspiring the viewer to go out and find a decent curry.
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12/07/07
Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:3
Rotten:16
Average Rating:3.8/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: When Nina (Shelley Conn) returns to her home in Glasgow, she's shocked to learn that her family has sold half of the share in their Indian restaurant. But she's even more surprised by her... [More]
Starring: Laura Fraser, Shelley Conn, Art Malik, Ronny Jhutti
Director: Pratibha Parmar
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Reviews for Nina's Heavenly Delights
1 - 20 (sorted by critic A-Z)
Top CriticParmar scores pleasant performances across the board...Yet the story is bland, like it's been over-workshopped in a screenwriting class, too polite and too smooth around the edges.
11/24/07
The novelty value of an east meets west cultural dynamic isn't enough to disguise how late Nina's Heavenly Delights is to the celluloid coming out party.
11/20/07
offers high production values while telling a conventional tale with several moderately unexpected twists.
09/21/08
I wanted to like it, but this new Glasgow-set drama really is weak.
12/30/06
A cloying blend of Bollywood sentiment and Amélie whimsy, Nina’s Heavenly Delights is a lesbian-foodie fairy tale that keeps its appetites well under control.
11/30/07
Top CriticIn her feature debut, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar falls back on every cliché she's supposedly trying to undermine.
12/30/06
Veena Sood plays Nina's mother with magisterial presence. But Conn overacts just as much as the impetuous Nina overreacts.
10/02/07
Top CriticIt's ironic how a film whose outcome depends on the difference between technical perfection and perceived, artistic greatness, would itself prove a slave to shallow screenplay mechanics deprived of nuance.
11/25/07
Nina's Heavenly Delights hints at better-simmered versions of similar dishes.
02/01/08
Top CriticDisappointingly tepid and flavourless fare.
12/30/06
It's a lovely ideal, and the food dishes are photographed scrumptiously, but the whole thing comes off undercooked.
11/20/07
Parmar's film is light and sweet, comfort food dressed up with a dash of exotic spice.
11/30/07
Making her feature debut after several documentaries, Parmar displays rookie jitters with excessive cutting and camera moves whose restlessness occasionally recalls Mumbai soap operas.
11/21/07
Top CriticLike a dainty appetiser, Nina's Heavenly Delights tries but fails to fill you up.
12/30/06
This combination of melodrama, comedy, music and romance eventually falls under the weight of its endlessly stereotypical characters, dialogue and situations.
12/05/07
Top CriticThis movie's heart is in the right place, which is one way of saying it's terrible.
11/30/07
Top CriticTouches of magic realism indicate we are in an ideal world where love will, if not conquer everything, then pretty much hug it into submission.
06/14/08
You know a cross-cultural, gender-bending dramedy has issues, when its most memorable moment is a blasphemous, bouncy Bollywood musical finale featuring a female impersonator.
11/25/07
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