MEANINGS OF FOOD IN THE FILM “THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY”

Abstract

The article seeks to explore the meanings associated with food in the film “The HundredFoot Journey” (2014), directed by Lasse Hallström. This paper aims to demonstrate that food represents not only a platform for asserting personal, social, national and cultural differences, but also a means of establishing bonds between people in spite of these differences. The hundred feet in the title represent not only the physical distance between two restaurants, but also the gap between the Indian and the French culture that the protagonist Hassan Kadam needs to cross in order to find his rightful place in the world.