I just read this article of the net titled: Spice Girl Kitschy but Indian, Gurinder Chadha has no qualms about her films fitting that bill.

The constant in Chadha’s films is only getting more apparent—The cultural dilelmmas of the Indian diaspora. One may accuse Chadha of stereotyping with all the Punjabi family-arranged marriages fare. She’s aware of the charge. ‘‘You say that as an Indians living in India. Ask those staying elsewhere, and you would get many appreciative nods. We make films for people with our cultural perspective,’’ she defends

I am fine with the cultural dilemmas, but the movies create such a cliched narrative. As an Indian in India, I found diasporic films invigorating until they all started to say the same thing, being on the other side I also think the themes around diasporic Indianness to be hackneyed.And Punjabi culture isn't representative of Indian culture.

Ethnic and Exotic are adjectives that we shouldn't whip up too much, but Ms. Chadha is doing just that with her Mistress of Spices. Magic, Spices, Beautiful Woman, American Lover.....your cultural perspective Ms. Chadha.

We needs to stop making such marginal film.