(rated R, 92 mins.)
Limited release
A somewhat twisted comedy about what happens when two generations and cultures collide. Tariq and his brother are at an age when they can do anything and the world is full of possibilities (and women). Of course, that isn’t the case when you are living in England but born into a family of seven children run by a strict traditional Muslim upbringing.Their father (Om Puri “My Son The Fanatic”) says his free-spirited boys must have an arranged wedding “to their own kind” (in the form of homely Pakistani women). But, they want blonde, British chicks. When the father tries to put his foot down, his English wife (Linda Bassett) gets caught in the middle displaying the irony in exactly what the father did by marrying her.
Limited release
A somewhat twisted comedy about what happens when two generations and cultures collide. Tariq and his brother are at an age when they can do anything and the world is full of possibilities (and women). Of course, that isn’t the case when you are living in England but born into a family of seven children run by a strict traditional Muslim upbringing.Their father (Om Puri “My Son The Fanatic”) says his free-spirited boys must have an arranged wedding “to their own kind” (in the form of homely Pakistani women). But, they want blonde, British chicks. When the father tries to put his foot down, his English wife (Linda Bassett) gets caught in the middle displaying the irony in exactly what the father did by marrying her.
The problem with the movie is the inability to empathize with the father’s strong beliefs since he himself married out of his own kind with a British red head. It’s a Pakistani “Fiddler On The Roof” with a rougher edge. While interesting, a lot was left unsettled and non-sequential to the story line. I did however like the ultimate dynamics of two lifestyles set against the worst possible 1970’s psychedelic hippie-dom providing a world that couldn’t be more at odds