Reviews & Ratings for
Beauty and the Feast (2018)

An attempt at a celebrity talk show cum a cooking show manages to perfect neither. A lonely woman named Beauty (Sumukhi Suresh), is unable to find amicable relationships the normal way and decides to bring people (celebrities) into her home by tying them up and forcing them to a feast by. She makes them a great meal and tries to strike good conversations all in hope of building some new friendships.

In general, the conversations are vague and inconsequential with bland questions lacking continuity and almost feel forced. While that doesn't make it repulsive or unbearable, just nothing presented is memorably ravishing. After the interactions, recipes for the dishes served are explained in a rather sloppy and quick fashion, making them really hard to follow.

The attempt to add flavor to monotonous talk shows is appreciable, but the lack of execution is apparent. Sumukhi Suresh manages to pull the character of an insecure, desperate but extremely amiable hostess as well as the constraints of theme allow her. Writing needs work and moments will seem palatable if they were more candid than orchestrated.

It's a one time watch offering nothing more than shallow talk and poorly explained fancy dishes.