Huma Qureshi in Tarla. (courtesy: iamhumaq) Tarla Dalal famously used many non-veg recipes – Murgh Musallam and Chicken 65 are specifically mentioned in this movie about her life and times – to rustle up vegetarian dishes with potatoes and cauliflowers. But Tarla, directed and co-written by Piyush Gupta and streaming on Zee5, could have done with some meat. A diligently structured slice-of-life drama about a celebrated real-life exponent of the art of vegetarian cooking, Tarla brings to the screen the struggles and successes of a middle-class Mumbai homemaker who churned out bestselling cookbooks while she juggled her domestic chores in pre-liberalisation India. Dangal and Chhichhore screenwriter Gupta’s directorial debut, the Tarla Dalal biopic has a fair sprinkling of drama but it thrives especially on its quieter moments, on the negotiations that take place within a marriage, in a society and during an era when life wasn’t easy for women seeking opportunities to make a name for themselves beyond the gender roles they were buttonholed into. The screenplay by Gupta with Gautam Ved is aimed at …