| Director | Nilesh Krishnaa |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Box office | ₹5.7 crore |
In Tiruchirappalli, Annapoorani is an aspiring chef who wants to pursue a degree in hotel management and climb the ladder to become a corporate chef like her idol, Chef Anand Sundarajan. Her family's lineage has been dedicated to serving at the Srirangam temple, where her father cooks the food offered to devotees as prasadam. The family being Hindu Brahmins, eats only vegetarian food. Annapoorani's father refuses to let her be in a room where meat is served and cooked, let alone pursuing a degree where she is forced to handle meat.
However, Annapoorani remains steadfast in her decision to be a chef and secretly joins a hotel management course at the same university where her parents believe she is doing an MBA. She is then caught one day by her father, eating chicken, and is then forced into a matrimonial alliance. On the day of her wedding, she runs away with her friend Farhaan to Chennai, leaving a voice note for her family. Angered, her father smashes the phone after listening to it. Annapoorani starts living with Farhaan's family, learns cooking from his mother and gets acquainted with Islam, even praying the namaz before she starts cooking. She then manages to get a job at the same hotel where her idol works and strives to be the best possible chef. She impresses the visiting president of France and is promoted to Chef de cuisine.
Anand's son Ashwin, also a chef, slowly grows jealous of Annapoorani and sabotages her by staging an oven accident leading to her acquiring Ageusia, and her taste buds becoming inactive. Through hard work, she manages to train to be the best chef in India and manages to win despite losing her sense of taste.