Naseer as a chef

Playing the role of a chef has made the veteran actor Naseerudin Shah much more enlightened about the intricacies of cooking dishes.

It was a completely new experience for the actor as he is a person who till this time has not cared for making any kind of food except omelette.

Naseer plays the character of a very jolly minded cab driver who becomes a chef in the movie titled as '7 To The Palace'.

The film is directed by David Kaplan and tells the story centered on an Indian restaurant named as The Palace in Queens at New York.

Although for most of the time during the shooting, Naseerudin Shah just had to fake cooking, the two things the director wanted his central character to learn was to chop onions and garlics.

So Naseer before going to New York for the shooting sought the help of his friend Pushan Kripalani , a chef who runs a restaurant in Versova to learn how to do the tasks assigned by the director like a true professional

Madhur Jaffrey who is a very famous culinary expert and one who is considered as the queen of cookery appears with Naseer in a scene in '7 To Palace'.

Asif Mandvi who is the scrip writer also plays the role of a trainee cook in the movie.

The director David Kaplan is a big lover of all kinds of foods and likes everything related with it.

His last movie titled as 'Year Of The Fish' also had its main theme in cooking as it narrated the tale of a Chinese restaurant.
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indiaglitz.com