Garam Masala

Garam Masala is a 2005 Indian comedy film directed by Priyadarshan featuring Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Rimi Sen, Neha Dhupia, Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav. It was released on Diwali of 2005. Akshay Kumar received the Best Actor award in a Comic Role award for his performance at the Filmfare Awards. It is a remake of 1965 American film Boeing Boeing directed by John Rich which was an adaptation of a 1960 French play of the same name. Priyadarshan earlier directed a Malayalam film in 1985 containing same plot which was also inspired by the French play and that was also titled as Boeing Boeing. Akshay Kumar and John Abraham's restaurant scene with Neha Dhupia was actually adapted from Priyadarshan's own Malayalam film Aram + Aram = Kinnaram.