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Movie Reviews
Reviews are contributed by Dr. Usman khawaja.
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Courtesy : Romuz Uddin
poetically sweep through the lanes and parks of east London like a gentle caressing breeze, yet this poignant story does not€™t treat its characters as Asian caricatures seen recently in Bollywood and Hollywood presentations but as individuals that we really are and how we as a community have established ourselves worldwide, not without a struggle but with absolute faith in our family structure.
The little boy is the focus of this tale yet you care for every character from the mum who stitches for a local garment factory to the proud Muslim Bengali father who is ashamed of his wife supporting the family while he struggles ineptly to find a job, mean while the son builds a model toy house from his imagination which symbolizes his domestic haven and the heartbreak intensifies as he sees his parents rowing for financial reasons.
The movie is a true portrayal of Asians living abroad and not the erotic fairy tales I have seen recently from Hollywood and Bollywood, the inspiring finale has to be seen not revealed as the solid script and soulful but complete characters proceed with their everyday life and head into a chaotic crisis.
The little boy is the focus of this tale yet you care for every character from the mum who stitches for a local garment factory to the proud Muslim Bengali father who is ashamed of his wife supporting the family while he struggles ineptly to find a job, mean while the son builds a model toy house from his imagination which symbolizes his domestic haven and the heartbreak intensifies as he sees his parents rowing for financial reasons.
The movie is a true portrayal of Asians living abroad and not the erotic fairy tales I have seen recently from Hollywood and Bollywood, the inspiring finale has to be seen not revealed as the solid script and soulful but complete characters proceed with their everyday life and head into a chaotic crisis.
A kind of English
It is a pleasure to see this soulful rendering of the plights of a Bengali family in the ghetto of London's east end through the
eyes of their nine-year-old son who is witnessing the helplessness of his parents in the face of financial ruin and unemployment due to racial discrimination in late eighties.
The focus is the child and his silent psychological trauma as he sees his mother (Lalita Ahmed) struggling to meet the ends while his unemployed father takes his frustration out at her and the rest of the family which comprise his uncle Tariq (Andrews) who is a minicab driver symbolizing the heroic valor of Asian men who indulge in this hazardous profession worldwide from Chicago to Sydney when there is no other option available to financial stability.
Yet add to this the heady wisdom of a withered old granny who relates the magical fables of the golden rivers of Bangladesh to her grandson and you have a delightful but thought provoking concoction which goes straight to your heart.
The stage is set in the redbrick council states of Hackney where we see the camera
The focus is the child and his silent psychological trauma as he sees his mother (Lalita Ahmed) struggling to meet the ends while his unemployed father takes his frustration out at her and the rest of the family which comprise his uncle Tariq (Andrews) who is a minicab driver symbolizing the heroic valor of Asian men who indulge in this hazardous profession worldwide from Chicago to Sydney when there is no other option available to financial stability.
Yet add to this the heady wisdom of a withered old granny who relates the magical fables of the golden rivers of Bangladesh to her grandson and you have a delightful but thought provoking concoction which goes straight to your heart.
The stage is set in the redbrick council states of Hackney where we see the camera
Director : Ruhul Amin
Cast : Lalitha Ahmed, Jamil Ali, Afroza Bulbul, Badsha Haq, Andrew Johnson
Producer : Richard Taylor
Writer: Paul Hallam
Cast : Lalitha Ahmed, Jamil Ali, Afroza Bulbul, Badsha Haq, Andrew Johnson
Producer : Richard Taylor
Writer: Paul Hallam
