New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- There's a new documentary on tea, released in November, made by filmmaker Christy Hui. Titled Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (not related to the book by the same name by Laura C. Martin), it packs a 5,000-year history into one and a half hours rather well. But it's without question a film that focuses on China, placing tea firmly in its origins, and inviting the viewer to enter this "fairyland of tea".

Tea enthusiasts will like it-the parts I enjoyed most were those set in China. After all it's here where tea's secrets abound. Here's where all the major styles of tea making-black, green, white, yellow, oolong and pu-erh-were created. To be able to see the great rocks of Wuyi, where the famous Da Hong Pao is gr...