First-time feature director Gurinder Chadha has called Ken Loach her most important influence, and BHAJI ON THE BEACH, a charming comic drama about women of Punjabi heritage living in urban England, is comparable to the best of Loach's realist comedies.
In a middle-class, mostly Indian neighborhood of Birmingham, housewife Ginder (Kim Vithana) has fled her abusive husband Ranjit (Jimmi Harkishin); she's persuaded by social worker Simi (Shaheen Khan) to join a group of Asian women on a day-trip to the nearby resort town of Blackpool. Along for
the ride are Hashida (Sarita Khajuria), a pre-med student who has just discovered she's pregnant; Asha (Lalita Ahmed), ...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins