Shelley Conn: Nina Shah

Nina's Heavenly Delights

Nina Shah

Lisa: [sees a text written underneath the wallpaper: 'Nina + Lorna - True love December 1988'; chuckling] Who is Lorna?
Nina: I don't know, I have no idea!
Lisa: [mumbling] Lorna... Lorna Mullin! I remember Lorna! Captain of the school hockey team, big blue eyes, tall, legs right up to her hocksters. I'm shocked!
Nina: [surprised]
Lisa: I wouldn't have thought she was your type!
Nina: Wha-, she WASN'T my type! I was nine! I had a crush on the world and his wife, when I was nine!
Bobbi: [comes in] Me too!

Lisa: I really want this, me and you. I've never felt like this before! Let's tell everyone!
Nina: I gotta go. I can't do this just now, Lisa.
Lisa: [looks disappointed]
[later, Nina rushes in the kitchen]
Lisa: I thought you'd done a runner on me.
Nina: Not yet. But I'm thinking about it.
Lisa: Of course you are. That''s what you always do.

Nina: Go on. I need you to know the difference for when you taste mine.
Lisa: [tastest the dish] Mh, it's delicious.
Nina: It's terrible! They didn't marinate the meat long enough. The longer you marinate it, the more tender it becomes.
Bobbi: [looks like he knows EXACTLY what is going on between the two girls]
Nina: Taste... that.
[feeds Lisa]
Nina: Well?
Lisa: That's better.
Nina: What's better about it?
Lisa: [constantly grinning] I don't know.
Bobbi: [and now he looks as if he is totally sure]

Nina: Let me get this straight: Dad used the restaurant as collateral for a bet?
Kary: Not exactly.
Lisa: He used half of it.
Nina: Oh, that's alright then. Had me worried for a minute.

Bobbi: Very soon, 'Morgal Productions' - that's 'Morgal Productions Mumbai', not 'Morgal Productions Maryhill' - prise and atone to cast their new bollywood blockbuster 'Love in a wet climate'!
Nina: Catchy title.
Bobbi: [exaggerative gesture] Yes, and we're gonna blow them away!

Nina: [to Priya] He was the one who always said 'Listen to your heart'. He should have listened to his bloody heart, than it might not have packed up on him.
[sobbing]
Nina: How could he? We were gonna do this - together. We were gonna win the hat-trick together! How could he go and just... die?
[starts to cry]
Priya: [cradles her]

Nina: [about her marriage with Sanyay] I mean, they had it all mapped out for me. Marry Sanjay, have lots of little Sanjay's, we'd have the 'Taj' and the 'Jewel'... huh. They saw us as this power cooking couple.

Nina: [about Sanjay] I just didn't love him.
Lisa: No such thing.
Nina: As love?
Lisa: There isn't. Just a big con. See, your dad told you how to cook. My dad told me never gamble with something you're not prepared to lose.

Lisa: [about the little temple] It's beautiful, isn't it? Beautiful monument to eternal love.
Nina: You don't believe in love.
Lisa: Your dad said some king spent 22 years building it for his queen.
Nina: Dead queen. Hah. It's a monument of grief.
Lisa: Same thing. If he was from Nashville, he'd have written a song about it.