Anita and Me (film)

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Anita and Me

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Directed by Metin Hüseyin
Produced by Paul Raphael
Written by Meera Syal
Starring Chandeep Uppal
Kabir Bedi
Anna Brewster
Music by Barry Blue
Lynsey De Paul
Editing by Annie Kocur
Release date(s) 2002
Running time 92 minutes
Country UK
Language English
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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 ran for 92 minutes. It was released during a period of popularity for Anglo-Indian films, alongside films like East Is East, and Bend It Like Beckham.

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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 idolises. However Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in as her Indian heritage keeps on resurfacing, and Anita's new boyfriend proves to be a racist. The film is semi-autobiographical, based on Syal's upbringing in Essington, Staffordshire in England. It is an inncredibly witty film laced with humour but it also contains very deep moral issues.

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