Best British Asian Films
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- StarsBill PatersonLindsay DuncanFritz Müller-ScherzThe Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsKim VithanaJimmi HarkishinSarita KhajuriaA group of women of Indian descent take a trip together from their home in Birmingham, England to the beach resort of Blackpool. The events of the day lead them to better mutual understanding and solidarity.
- DirectorDamien O'DonnellStarsOm PuriLinda BassettJordan RoutledgeIn early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsParminder NagraKeira KnightleyJonathan Rhys MeyersTwo ambitious girls, despite their parents' wishes, have their hearts set on careers in professional football.
- DirectorSarjit BainsStarsManish PatelDave CourtneyJass BassiBased on the novel The Stone Shiva by Manish Patel, the movie centres on the Holy Smokes crime syndicate and the real-life $6 million Heathrow Airport robbery, involving battles with the Chinese Triads, Jamaican Yardies and the English Firm to see who rules London.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsMartin HendersonAishwarya Rai BachchanNadira BabbarA modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, that features the lives of four unmarried daughters in an Indian family.
- DirectorPenny WoolcockStarsKelli HollisJames FosterMichael TaylorAbout two families (one white, one Asian) who come together unexpectedly on a local night of carnival trickery and festivity.
- DirectorSarah GavronStarsTannishtha ChatterjeeSatish KaushikChristopher SimpsonIn 1980s London, Nazneem, a young Bangladeshi woman, feels her soul is quietly dying in her arranged marriage, until the day hot-headed Karim comes knocking at her door.
- StarsRiz AhmedManjinder VirkMary StockleyIn this two-part Channel 4 drama, two British-born Muslim siblings are drawn in radically different directions after 9/11.
- DirectorDanny BoyleLoveleen TandanStarsDev PatelFreida PintoSaurabh ShuklaA teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.
- DirectorSarjit BainsStarsAmeet ChanaPooja ShahRonny JhuttiA gang of young petty criminals end up in an abandoned farm when a deal goes wrong.
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsAqib KhanOm PuriLinda BassettAn immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country.
- DirectorChristopher MorrisStarsWill AdamsdaleRiz AhmedAdeel AkhtarFour incompetent British terrorists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
- DirectorJosh AppignanesiStarsOmid DjaliliRichard SchiffArchie PanjabiAn identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsSanjeev BhaskarSteve MorphewSteve JonesA comedy centered on an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of serial murder.
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsFreida PintoRiz AhmedMita VashishtThe story of the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.
- DirectorMenhaj HudaStarsJames Krishna FloydAdam DeaconAlyy KhanA drama centered on a British Asian torn between honoring his family traditions and his love for DJing.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsJudi DenchBill NighyMaggie SmithBritish retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
- DirectorMira NairStarsRiz AhmedLiev SchreiberKiefer SutherlandA young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on Wall Street finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
- DirectorSally El HosainiStarsJames Krishna FloydElarica JohnsonFady ElsayedTwo teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being Egyptians growing up on the streets of gangland London.
- DirectorNigel ColeStarsReece RitchieAmara KaranHarish PatelFor Atul Dutt and his young bride Vina married life is proving far from straightforward, when it comes to their 'first night'. Atul is so woefully inhibited by the proximity of his parents, let alone his brother's childish pranks, that his beautiful virgin bride remains just that. When their hard saved honeymoon is cancelled the next day, the couple is forced to return to the Dutt household and set up home there. So with meddling parents, nosy neighbours and a community that thrives on gossip, can this marriage last?
- DirectorDevanand ShanmugamStarsTerence AndersonMarcus BoyeaOliver Cotton24 hours before the Tamil protests outside the Houses of Parliament, Arun (Nav Sidhu) returns home from a long absence, to stop his younger brother Ruthi (Kabelan Verlkumar) from committing a crime that could ruin his life. Arun is granted a day by his mysterious employer, Marcus (Oliver Cotton) to talk Ruthi round. But Arun's friendship with gang leader Karuna (San Shella), threatens to suck him back into the world he left behind. Can Arun forge a life away from his past misdeeds, save his brother from the same fate, and fulfill his obligations to his family, friends and his Tamil roots. Featuring a cast of fresh talent, and the music of M.I.A., Tallulah Rendall, Susheela Raman, Aaryan Dinesh Kanagaratnam, ABD & Sonar Cousins, Gangs of Tooting Broadway is a hard-hitting showcase of a little-known community and unfamiliar subculture; Sri Lankan Tamil Gangs whose infamy to Scotland Yard is such that they have their own task force dedicated to them.
- DirectorAsad ShanStarsAsad ShanSabeeka ImamMetin AhmetIndian immigrant Jai finds friendship and love, upon arriving in London. However one phone call changes everything, thrusting him into a dark and dangerous situation.