Ustad Hotel

On a grey cloudy evening, with a little spare time at hand, I watched the movie--Ustad Hotel. It is a Malayalam movie with Dulqar Salman and Thilakan in major roles. It is about one's love for cooking and the passion that binds a person to follow the hobby. The first half of the movie deals with Dulqar's love for cooking and to follow his dream of being a chef. He meets his grandfather who runs the Ustad hotel, a nondescript hotel, facing the beach somewhere in Kozhikode. This hotel is famous for it malabari biryani and the sulaimani served with love.

Ok my post is not about the review of the movie. My post is about the events that take place during the end of the movie. During the end, there is a sudden twist where Dulqar gets to meet an ex Taj chef in Madurai who devotes his life for feeding the impoverished, the downtrodden, and persons who cannot manage to feed themselves either due to physical deformity or financial constraints. This event changes the way the hero looks at cooking and decides to give up his exec chef post in Paris to settle down as the owner cum chef of the Ustad hotel.

This event changed my perspective towards food and how every human needs to value food. Today I started giving back to the society through my small contribution towards bettering the lives of the downtrodden through food requirement. 

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