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Dilip Mehta is thrilled with the responses he has received for his directorial debut, ‘Cooking With Stella’, at the Toronto International Film as well as Cinfest Sudbury.
"Seema Biswas and I flew to Sudbury where our film was opening the Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival. The unusual feature for the Gala opening was that the film was shown simultaneously in four theatres and each theatre was packed," Dilip told.
"Seema and I were thrilled with the response 'Cooking With Stella' received. At a reception following the screening, Seema was mobbed by the invitees who had remembered her strong performance in (Dilip's sister) Deepa's 'Water'. We returned to Toronto on Sunday and Seema continued on to London and then Mumbai," he added.
‘Cooking With Stella’ is a very light comedy whose plot revolves around the family of a Canadian diplomat Maya, essayed by Lisa Ray, her husband Michael (Don McKellar), their cook Stella, essayed by Seema Biswas and the nanny Tannu, portrayed by Shriya Saran.
While the Sudbury film festival started Sep 19, the Atlantic Halifax festival too opened same day.
"My film once again opened the festival. Our producer David Hamilton represented the film and did the honours. And according to him, the response in Halifax was the same. The audience loved the film, performances, humour, and biting satire.
"On the 25th of September we go to Edmonton where my film is once again opening the international film festival," said Dilip.
