Anita and Me (film)
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| Anita and Me | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| IMDb profile | |
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.
[edit] 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 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.
[edit] Cast
- Meena Kumar - Chandeep Uppal
- Anita Rutter - Anna Brewster
- Mr Kumar - Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Mrs Kumar - Ayesha Dharker
- Deidre Rutter - Kathy Burke
- The Yeti - Kabir Bedi
- Paul - Robert Tipping
