The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

Om Puri: Papa

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• Papa : You want Hassan because you want another star for yourself, yes ?

  Madame Mallory : Oh, yes. Yes, I will not lie. But I will also offer him a stepping stone to the world. He deserves it. He has a gift.

  Papa : You are very stubborn.

  [rooster crowing] 

  Papa : Oh, it's morning already.

  [exhales] 

  Papa : A new dawn. So... How much will you pay him per week ?

  Madame Mallory : 200 euro.

  Papa : [chuckling]  Now you are proving you are insane.

  Madame Mallory : 250, plus food.

  Papa : If you sit in cold all night, he's worth 600.

  Madame Mallory : [scoffs]  In your dreams.

  Papa : 450, or I walk.

  Madame Mallory : 320, but 350 after three month. Do we have a deal ?

  Papa : No.

  Hassan : Yes. We have a deal.

  Papa : [speaking Hindi] 

  Hassan : Okay, relax, Papa.

  Papa : What do you mean, "relax" ? Spoiled the whole game.

  Madame Mallory : Papa, we have a deal.

  Papa : Madame...

• Papa : She thinks she owns everybody in town. Do you hear me up there? I say no! Don't try to steal my children!

  Madame Mallory : I will report you, Mr. Kadam, for making too much noise.

  Papa : And I will report you for attempted child abduction!

  Madame Mallory : Have you even asked the boy what he wants?

  Papa : You deliberately seduced him!

  Madame Mallory : [Scoffs] 

  Papa : You seduced his mind,with your awful, tasteless, empty sauces! With your pitiful little squashed bits of garlic!

  Madame Mallory : That is called subtlety of flavor.

  Papa : It's called meanness of spirit! If you have a spice, use it! Don't sprinkle it. Spoon it in!

  Madame Mallory : What you do not seem to understand is that there is such a thing as enough. Enough is enough, arrêtez!

  Papa : Yes, enough of you. Always up there like a queen or something. You tell him, it's "classical". What is "classical"?

  Madame Mallory : "Classical" comes from the word "class". And that is what he will learn in my kitchen. He will learn how to cook with class.

  Papa : Indian cannot become French, and the French cannot become Indian.

  Madame Mallory : Mr. Kadam, I think I have just spent the whole day washing those words off your wall.

• Mansur : So I guess the cooking is now down to me.

  Papa : Yes, mister.

  Mansur : Oh, God!

  Papa : What do you mean, "Oh, God"?

• Papa : Madame, asking for discount doesn't mean I'm poor, it means I'm thrifty.

• Mahira : Papa, it is a very sweet location and the building is fine, but there is a problem, which makes it impossible for us to open a restaurant there. There is already a restaurant.

  Mansur : Just across the street. 100 feet. We measured.

  Mahira : That is why the people moved back to Paris. They couldn't make it pay.

  Mansur : Papa, the restaurant across the street has a Michelin star, hmm?

  Papa : I know, I saw it. Twinkle, twinkle. So what?

• Mansur : Papa, it is the best restaurant for 50 miles in any direction. The President of France dines there.

  Papa : Is the President of France able to order murgh masala, with cashew nuts and cardamom? And ka saag aloo? Dal? Our secret family spices?

  Mahira : No, but they are a Michelin star restaurant, Papa.

  Mansur : They have frogs' legs, escargot, ratatouille.

  Papa : ls the President able to order tandoori goat, cooked the way Hassan cooks? Sprinkled with roast spices?

  Mansur : Papa, the restaurant doesn't serve those things, because the people here don't like to eat those things.

  Papa : Because they don't know. They have never tried. Now they shall.

• Madame Mallory : Well, curry is curry, is it not?

  Papa : Obviously you've never eaten Indian food, especially cooked by my son.

  Madame Mallory : Yes, I understand you people like to keep everything in the family.

• Mayor : The restaurant is her entire life. Ever since her husband died, she keeps it up for him. But she has always been, I'm sorry, but in French we say, "têtu comme une mule" - stubborn as an ox.

  Papa : There you are. Very well, I will turn the music down. But you tell her from me, I will turn the heat up.

• Hassan : Papa, it would only be a six-month trial. Mama would want this. I'll get a more classical training. Don't you want that for me?

  Papa : India is not classical? We are the oldest civilization in the world.

• Papa : They are bloody cruel to make you go through all this every year.

  Madame Mallory : Yes. Cruel. Like the gods.

• Papa : Remember that time we were taking a walk along the river? We picked flowers and...

  Madame Mallory : We did not pick flowers. We were looking for mushrooms. And we found flowers.

  Papa : Which we picked!

  Madame Mallory : Yes, picked flowers, of course, but we were *looking* for mushrooms.