Today’s Special’ is a new movie, inspired by Aasif Mandvi’s play ‘Sakina’s Restaurant’. The movie, a comedy directed by David Kaplan and written by Aasif Mandvi and Jonathan Bines is to be premiered on Nov 11th at MAHINDRA INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL FILM FESTIVAL- MIAAC 09 Opening Night Film.

The story is about a sous chef, who has larger dreams of becoming a head chef in NY restaurant or becoming an understudy of a legendry chef. But circumstances lead him to run his family’s restaurant -Tandoori Palace. This movie stars Aasif Mandvi, from ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’, renowned bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah and author and actress Madhur Jafferey.

Sakinas Restaurant was written and performed by Aasif Mandvi and directed and developed by Kim Hughes as a play at the American Place Theater.