Anita and Me was a successful British comedy/drama film released in 2002 based on the book Anita and Me by Meera Syal. It is about a young Sikh Indian girl growing up in a mining village in the West Midlands in 1972, and how she tried to fit in. It was released during a period of popularity for Anglo-Indian films, alongside films like East Is East, and Bend It Like Beckham.
Plot
Meena Kumar, a 12 year old girl of Indian origin, is living with her family in a predominantly white working class mining village in the West Midlands in 1972. It is then that Meena meets Anita, a white, 14 year old girl, who Meena comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in, as her Indian heritage keeps on resurfacing, and Anita's new boyfriend proves to hold strong racist attitudes towards those he regards as "darkies". The film is semi-autobiographical, based on Syal's upbringing in Essington, Staffordshire in England.Cast
- Meena Kumar - Chandeep Uppal
- Anita Rutter - Anna Brewster
- Mr Kumar - Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Mrs Kumar - Ayesha Dharker
- Deirdre Rutter - Kathy Burke
- The Yeti - Kabir Bedi
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Anita and Me was a successful British comedy/drama film released in 2002 based on the book Anita and Me by Meera Syal. It is about a young Sikh Indian girl growing up in a mining village in the West Midlands in 1972, and how she tried to fit in. It was released during a period of popularity for Anglo-Indian films, alongside films like East Is East, and Bend It Like Beckham.
Plot
Meena Kumar, a 12 year old girl of Indian origin, is living with her family in a predominantly white working class mining village in the West Midlands in 1972. It is then that Meena meets Anita, a white, 14 year old girl, who Meena comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in, as her Indian heritage keeps on resurfacing, and Anita's new boyfriend proves to hold strong racist attitudes towards those he regards as "darkies". The film is semi-autobiographical, based on Syal's upbringing in Essington, Staffordshire in England.Cast
- Meena Kumar - Chandeep Uppal
- Anita Rutter - Anna Brewster
- Mr Kumar - Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Mrs Kumar - Ayesha Dharker
- Deirdre Rutter - Kathy Burke
- The Yeti - Kabir Bedi
External links
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Last updated on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at 10:12:23 PDT (GMT -0700)
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