'Aishwarya Rai -- is there a wishier, washier, wimpier actor anywhere in the known universe?,' asked The Guardian's influential critic Peter Bradshaw, giving Mistress Of Spices a single star (out of a maximum five) in the reputed London daily newspaper.
The film, already nicknamed by many critics as 'Mistress Without Spices' has bombed unceremoniously in the United Kingdom.