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Director Dilip Mehta's Cooking with Stella is a colourful comedy of manners - an enjoyable, if unremarkable film. Set in New Delhi, the story follows fresh-off-the plane diplomats Don McKellar and Lisa Ray as Michael and Maya - he an off-duty chef and she a high-level employee at the Canadian High Commission. While Maya is at the office, Michael stays home to take care of the couple's young child - to the chagrin of endentured cook, Stella - played straight as an arrow, often to hilarious effect by Seema Biswas.

Cooking with Stella is beautiful to watch, as the camera roves through New Delhi's markets and colourful religious festivals. But the story is a touch too loose - a too-thin broth - to get viewers very excited.

The masterful Seema Biswas is a joy as Stella -- an wizened servant accustomed to running the house in more ways than one. Turns out she has a tidy little "shop" in the house's backrooms, selling plundered Canadian beer, boxes of Tide and other sundry North American goodies for a tidy profit. "Like Robin Hood," she tells herself.

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