New Delhi, Nov. 7 -- I enjoy cooking, and I enjoy science fiction, and I've realised there is a connection between the two. Both immerse you in an alternate world-between flame and flavour, between code and consciousness.

Let me round up some notable movies about multiple realities. The 1999 movie, The Thirteenth Floor, was about scientists creating the ability to plug themselves into 1937, getting their highs as they crossed the blurry lines between awareness and algorithm. That same year, we saw the first Matrix movie, questioning what was real and what was fake as people lived in a fantastical world controlled by machines. In 2011, Another Earth used parallel realities to explore redemption and possibility. In 2013, Comet examined the...