"What binds a family together, the spices in the vindaloo, or the secrets it keeps?" According to Hunt Hoe's taboo-tampering tale the answer would be all of the above, for passion informs both the piquant vindaloo and the dusky secrets. Inside the home of Vijay (Dr. Mohan Agashe), a restaurateur living in Montreal, there is only melancholy. With the death of his wife, he endures a loneliness heightened by his son Zakir's (Vijay Metha) aloofness. Then he encounters the enchanting Maarya (Nandana Sen), who he believes would make a faultless wife for his indifferent son, an aspiring musician. From here, the film frolics and fondles its way through shifting relationships in which adultery, homosexuality, and incest emerge like heady spices. Mixing punk music, culinary quips, and plenty of prohibitions, director Hoe's risqué romance realizes a new kind of family owing as much to libido as to loyalty. But this is not at the cost of intimate and affecting human connections-clearly evident in Agashe's endearing portrayal of the broad-minded father. Following the Indian adage that a woman doesn't marry a husband, she marries a family, Seducing Maarya embraces all the possibilities.