Todays Special

Samir, a sous chef in New York, leaves his job to rescue his familys struggling Indian restaurant in Queens, and with the help of a talented gourmet chef named Akbar, he turns it into a thriving business despite facing obstacles such as inexperienced chefs, low customer turnout, and the potential sale of the restaurant. Todays Special is a 2009 American English-language Comedy motion picture starring Aasif Mandvi, Madhur Jaffrey, Naseeruddin Shah, Harish Patel, Jess Weixler, Kevin Corrigan and Edward M. Kelahan. The movie is inspired from Sakina s Restaurant by Aasif Mandvi. Inimitable Pictures in association with Sweet 180. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Nimitt Mankad, Lillian Lasalle and Declan Baldwin. Todays Special is written by Aasif Mandvi and Jonathan Bines and it is directed by David Kaplan. Reliance MediaWorks Ltd acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Todays Special was released on 15th October 2009 and takes a screen time of 99 minutes. The movie made a box office gross of $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Aasif Mandvi and Jonathan Bines. Cinematography was done by David Tumblety and editing by Rich Fox and Chris Houghton. The music was composed by Stephane Wrembel along with Songs By Siddhartha Khosla.