The Mistress of Spices: Directed by Paul Mayeda Berges. With Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Dylan McDermott, Nitin Ganatra, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An immigrant in San Francisco brings Indian magic with her through spices. To keep the magic, she must never leave the spice store or touch another’s skin. One day, a handsome architect bachelor enters her store. Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.