Filmmaker Paul Berges feels Aishwarya Rai's performance in his Mistress of Spices is one of her finest and the film will do well in India.

Berges, husband of British director Gurinder Chadha, said: "In 'Mistress...' Ash gives a very understated performance which is unlike anything I've ever seen her do. I think it's one of her finest roles and people who have been seeing the film agree."

"It has its own unique style which is a fusion of immigrant's tale, sexy romance and magic realist fable. So I hope people get a chance to discover something which is culturally familiar, but stylistically different," Berges said.

Berges, who has written the script for his wife's "Bend It Like Beckham", said in "Mistress", which released in India on Friday, Aishwarya has great chemistry with Dylan McDermott. "From the moment they started rehearsing I could see that their intensity together would be sizzling on screen," he said.