Top 10 Bollywood Films Related To Food And Cooking 

Bollywood has featured a lot of films based on several countless genres, one of such is based on food, and cooking, from family to restaurant. Some remain dreams and some come true. Passion has always been portrayed in these films. Here is a list of such Bollywood films which is based on delicacies.

1. Stanley Ka Dabba Click to look into! >> Read More...

The film Stanley Ka Dabba is about a young boy and his story about the lunch break at his school. He is a popular student in class 4 since he is talented. He is loved by his teachers and friends. He does not bring any lunch boxes to his school. Instead, the food is shared by his friends, and when questioned about the reason, he makes up stories. Their Hindi teacher has a habit of intruding in other students’ tiffin boxes. He threatens and beats Stanley for not having his own food. Later, it is shown that he is an orphan who works at a restaurant and cannot afford his own food.

2. Cheeni Kum Click to look into! >> Read More...

The film Cheeni Kum is about an old cook who falls in love with a middle-aged woman. He is a single, arrogant person and a great cook at a restaurant in London. One day his cooking skill in a recipe is questioned by an independent woman, who is an engineer, based on the quantity of sugar in the dish. On challenging, the woman wins. They share an unusual love story, and the man decides to ask for the woman’s hand for marriage from her father. But he discovers that her father was his junior, leading to chaos.

3. Ramji Londonwaley

The film Ramji Londonwaley is a story about a cook from India who must give a dowry for his sister’s marriage and decides to work in London as a cook and send a part of his earning money to his sister for her marriage and dowry. But when he reaches London, he sees that the owner, under whom he was about to work has died. But under pressure, he illegally gets a job at an NRI restaurant and is chased by police. To save himself, he has to marry a British citizen. He cooks delicious food for his wife and wins her heart.

4. Chef Click to look into! >> Read More...

The film Chef is about a chef working in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . He loves his career as a cook. For his work, he has to stay away from his family, who is in India. He starts facing a crisis in his work and decides to take a break and visit his family in India, his wife, and his son. They gradually begin reconnecting. When he realizes he should return to work, he cannot since he has become attached to his family. So, to stay with his family in India, he leaves his job abroad and opens a food truck locally to hold back to his roots.

5. Luv Shub Tey Chicken Khurana

The film Luv Shub Tey Chicken Khurana is about remembering an old family recipe of Chicken Khurana, and its secret ingredient related, for which the dhaba was famous. The protagonist once stole his grandfather’s money and ran to the UK and after all these years, Daarji forgot about it. Omi runs from the UK, too since he is chased by a gangster. Now, Omi is back in India and decides to revive their old family recipe with his crush and help his family to restore their famous dhaba. But later discovers that the secret ingredient that was used is marijuana.

6. Daawat E Ishq

The film Dawat-e-ishq is about a shoe-sales girl Gullu, who dreams of going to America. Her father wants her to marry but is held back when a massive sum of money is asked for a dowry. Even when she falls in love with another man, his parents demand a dowry, so she files a case against a dowry. Now, she and her father travel to Lucknow and again falls in love with Taru, who is an excellent cook. She is impressed by his cooking skills and plans to return all his money when earlier she thought of him charging against a dowry.

7. The Lunchbox Click to look into! >> Read More...

The film Lunchbox is about a widower and a married woman how who mistakenly delivers a lunchbox to a man who is about to retire. She starts sharing notes within the lunchbox and is read by the man. He too plans to exchange notes. Now, she starts developing feelings for him and starts cooking delicious food every day. She thus wants to meet him face to face. But when the man senses she is much younger than him. He keeps his distance from her. Angry, she delivers him an empty lunchbox. He apologizes to her, explaining their age gap.

8. Bawarchi

The film Bawarchi is about a cook, who is a young man name, Raghu. A home named Shanti Niwas which does not resemble its name needs a cook. There is regular chaos in the house, where even a servant cannot withstand the nuisance due to an all-treatment by the residents towards them. After a lot of searching, Raghu appears as a cook in their house. He is an excellent cook, a singer, and a dancer. His lovable character reunites the family with his excellent skills in cooking. He soon becomes the apple of the eye of all the residents of that house.

9. English Vinglish Click to look into! >> Read More...

The film English Vinglish is a story of a housewife who has a home business of making and selling laddoos. She is invited to her sister’s daughter’s wedding in New York. She goes early to help her sister, and later, her family joins her. She is mocked by her husband and her daughter because she cannot speak English. So, in New York, she plans to join spoken English classes using the money she made from selling laddoos. In class, she earns everyone’s love with her charm and cooking skills. She finally learns English, to everyone’s surprise, and delivers a speech at the wedding.

10. Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi Click to look into! >> Read More...

The film Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi is s story of a middle-class boy whose strict father wants him to study. But instead, he wants to own a restaurant. He dreams of opening his own restaurant. He and his friend are brilliant street boys who got addicted to drinking alcohol as an adolescent. After schooling, he becomes a spot boy in a shady film company after many struggles. The film provides immense humor with easy-going characters and is a simple story. But his dream remains a dream, and due to his habits, he cannot achieve it.