Madhur Jaffrey Filmography

Born:: Delhi, India
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Madhur Jaffrey grew up in her native Delhi, India, as a self-described tomboy. At an early age, she realized the limitations that were placed on her by Hindu society, due to the fact that she is a woman. She thus strove to accomplish what was most difficult to achieve, which was occupational and...Read More

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Partition

Actors: Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, John Light, Neve Campbell, Irfan Khan

Synopsis: In a time when India and Pakistan are being torn apart, true love still manages to take root despite the fear and intolerance that blights the troubled landscape. The year is 1947, and as India and Pakistan are split into two separate states the rivers run red with blood. Gian (Jimi Mistry) is a Read More

2/2/07
Prime

Actors: Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Zak Orth

Synopsis: Two women get a new and unusual perspective on the doctor/patient relationship in this romantic comedy. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a woman in her mid-thirties who has recently gone through a messy divorce. Rafi has been seeing an analyst, Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep), as she struggles to get back Read More

10/28/05
Cosmopolitan

Actors: Roshan Seth, Carol Kane, Madhur Jaffrey, Purva Bedi, Taj Crown

2003
Chutney Popcorn

Actors: Jill Hennessy, Nisha Ganatra, Nick Chinlund, Madhur Jaffrey, Sakina Jaffrey

Synopsis: The push and pull of familial bonds and clashing cultures sets the stage for the comic drama Chutney Popcorn. Renna (Nisha Ganatra) is a young woman of Indian descent living in New York, where she works as both a photographer and a body artist who creates henna tattoos. Renna is also a lesbian Read More

7/14/00
Cotton Mary

Actors: Madhur Jaffrey, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Sakina Jaffrey, Laura Lumley

Synopsis: Ismail Merchant, best known as a producer for his work with director James Ivory (including Howards End and A Room With a View), takes possession of the director's chair in this drama. In 1954, seven years after India has gained independence from Great Britain, many Indians still feel like Read More

3/15/00
ABCD

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Madhur Jaffrey, Faran Tahir, Sheetal Sheth, Aasif Mandvi, David Ari

Synopsis: New York University film student Krutin Patel debuts with this cross-cultural drama about a pair of Indian-American 20-somethings. Bedhopping Nina (Sheetal Sheth) is split between upper class white boy Sam (Rex Young) and childhood friend Ashok (Aasif Mandvi). Meanwhile, Nina's workaholic brother Read More

1999
The Peacock Spring

Actors: Hattie Moraham, Jennifer Hall, Naveen Andrews, Masood Akhtar, Ramgopal Bajaj

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Rumer Godden, the two-part British miniseries The Peacock Spring took place in Delhi, India, in 1959. Hattie Moraham starred as Una Gwithin, 15-year-old daughter of the recently appointed U.N. diplomat to the region. Una caused shock waves to ripple throughout what was left of Read More

1996
Wolf

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson becomes a werewolf in this bizarre comedy-horror film directed by Mike Nichols. Nicholson plays Will Randall, a book editor with a testosterone deficit who has just been sacked at his publishing firm by a new boss, Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer). A colleague, Stewart Swinton (James Spader Read More

1994
Vanya on 42nd Street

Actors: Wallace Shawn, Brooke Smith, Andre Gregory, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Madhur Jaffrey, Jerry Mayer, George Gaynes, Phoebe Brand, Lynn Cohen

Synopsis: In the late 1980s, noted theatrical director Andre Gregory assembled a group of friends and actors and began rehearsing a new translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by David Mamet, not with any specific performance in mind but as a way of exploring the beauty and precise construction of Read More

1994
Six Degrees of Separation

Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Read More

1993
Madhur Jaffrey's Far Eastern Cooking

Synopsis: Madhur Jaffrey is one of the most renowned Indian cooks in the English-speaking world. She has authored dozens of cookbooks, opened several highly successful restaurants, and has traveled the world time and time again in search of authentic regional food that characterizes its people. In this Read More

1988
The Perfect Murder

Actors: Dalip Tahil, Madhur Jaffrey, Stellan Skarsgård, Amjad Khan

Synopsis: Someone has tried to murder Mr. Perfect (Dinshaw Daji) and now the beleaguered Inspector Ghote (Krishna Shah) must figure out who tried to do it. Set in Bombay, India, this rollicking crime drama centers on Ghote's search for the would-be killer. Mr. Perfect was knocked out with a candlestick in Read More

1988
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery

Synopsis: Madhur Jaffrey is one of the most renowned Indian cooks in the English-speaking world. She has authored dozens of cookbooks, opened several highly successful restaurants, and has traveled the world time and time again in search of authentic regional food that characterizes its people. In this Read More

1987
The Assam Garden

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Madhur Jaffrey, Alec McCowen, Zia Mohyeddin, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: An embittered, lonely old widow reluctantly tends her late husband's garden and discovers that more than flowers can bloom there when she encounters her East Indian neighbor, a woman with an ailing husband. This touching drama chronicles their friendship. The story opens as the widow returns from Read More

1985
Heat and Dust

Actors: Julie Christie, Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood

Synopsis: Two women, related but separated by one generation and 60 years, have parallel experiences in the evocative mystical environment of India in this period drama from producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Although a little slow-paced for some, and slightly confusing because the stories Read More

1982
Autobiography of a Princess

Actors: James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier, Diane Fletcher, Timothy Bateson

Synopsis: Autobiography of a Princess represents the return to East Indian themes by the team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory after the unsuccessful Hollywood-based The Wild Party (1973). The basic Merchant/Ivory "props", including landed gentry, old folks taking unnatural interest in the goings-on of Read More

1975
The Guru

Actors: Michael York, Utpal Dutt, Madhur Jaffrey, Rita Tushingham, Aparna Sen

Synopsis: Tom Pickle (Michael York) is the British rock star who travels to India to learn the sitar from Ustad Zafar Khan (Uptal Dutt). Much to the dismay of his aggressive agent Chris (Barry Foster), he leaves the money-making music world behind to learn about the exotic Indian instrument. Khan believes Read More

1969
Shakespeare Wallah

Actors: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell, Madhur Jaffrey

Synopsis: Lizzie (Felicity Kendal) is an actress in a Shakespearean theater troupe that has seen better days. The troupe tours India to dwindling crowds who are less interested in all things British in the wake of Indian independence. When she has an affair with the Indian playboy Sanju (Shashi Kapoor) Read More

1965