SITA'S KITCHEN

A coming of age story ,a journey of a self- taught chef from the Himalayas as she navigates the cut throat world of gourmet kitchen. She was told, ‘ Girls belong in the kitchen’ , but her destiny was to rule it as a chef. ondon-based restaurateur Arun and his assistant Ben are on a business trip. They stop at a roadside café in Himachal Pradesh and are astonished with its Europeanooks and Italian menu. A cynical Arun samples a dish and is blown away by its authenticity. His astonishment turns into disbelief when heearns that the cook is Sita, a simple mountain girl who has never in herife stepped outside her village. Ever since her mother passed away, Sita started helping her deaf-mute father run their small tea stall. Sitaoves cooking and when a travelling Italian chef gifts her a cookbook, the passion becomes an obsession. Aided by YouTube videos, Sita soon revamps the tea stall and turns it into an elfin café . Arun recognizes Sita’ s extraordinary talents and convinces her to move toondon and become a chef at his restaurant. However, Sita’ sack of professional training is soon apparent. Help comes in the form of Anwar Khan, a veteran butcher, who takes a floundering Sita under his wings. She embarks on a journey, navigating the cut-throat and often ugly world of gourmet chefs where gender conventions and racial undercurrents can make or break careers. As she strives to carve a niche for herself, Arun starts feeling differently towards Sita. Just when Sita starts believing in her special destiny, one incident alters her inside out andeads her to rediscovering herself.