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Jewel in the Crown, The (TV Mini series) (1984): Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, Charles Dance, Art Malik…; One of the supreme TV events of the 1980s, this epic adaptation of Paul Scott's novels 'The Raj Quartet' is set in 1930–40s India: the 'jewel…
Brothers in Trouble (1995): Dir. Udayan Prasad
Feat. Om Puri, Angeline Ball; A Pakistani illegal–immigrant family struggle to maintain an income and dignity in a grim '60s Midland town. Bittersweet tragicomedy.
My Son The Fanatic (1997): Dir. Udayan Prasad
Feat. Akbar Kurtha, Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths…; Penned by Hanif Kureishi (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE), this Brit drama conflates various issues of British–Asian culture as a family is polarised…
Such a Long Journey (1998): Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Naseeruddin Shah; Set in the turbulent India of 1971, just prior to the war with Pakistan, this artfully fashioned drama centres on the political and personal crises…
East Is East (1999): Dir. Damien O'Donnell
Feat. Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry; Polished bittersweet comedy about a family of Pakistani Brits living in 1970s Manchester, headed by a traditionalist patriarch whose keen to make…
Zookeeper, The (2001): Dir. Ralph Ziman
Feat. Sam Neill, Gina McKee, Ulrich Thomsen…; A quiet, little–seen drama set in a wartorn Communist country in Eastern Europe, with a zookeeper (Neill) struggling to care for the animals…
Mystic Masseur, The (2002): Dir. Ismail Merchant
Feat. Om Puri, James Fox; An ambitious adaptation of V.S. Naipul’s first novel, that traces the rise of a poor Indian student in 1950s Trinidad who emigrates to Oxford…
Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series) (2003): Feat. James Nesbitt, Julie Walters, Billie Piper…; A contemporay retelling of six tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, which dispenses with the framing journey to concentrate on the…
King of Bollywood (2004): Dir. Piyush Jha
Feat. Kavita Kapoor, Sophie Dahl, Om Puri; A tongue–in–cheek satire of the Bollywood movie industry, in which a star (Puri) with notions of his own timeless importance becomes…
Don (2006): Dir. Farhan Akhtar
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Om Puri; Far–fetched story of a Mumbai man recruited by police to masquerade as the ruthless head of the Malaysian drug mafia, known as "the Don". When…
Shoot on Sight (2007): Dir. Jag Mundhra
Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri…; Not so much hot potato as lukewarm, this political thriller bases its story on the real–life shooting of an innocent Brazilian man gunned down…
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The (2012): Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber…; A Pakistani Princeton graduate's life in America is shattered in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in this searing adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's…
Hundred-Foot Journey, The (The 100 Foot Journey) (2014): Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Charlotte Le Bon; A humble Indian family encounter fierce competition when they set up restaurant opposite an acclaimed haute cuisine establishment in this 'good…
Viceroy's House (2017): Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon…; Another handsome chronicle of Britain's imperial history, this one depicting events of 1947, when Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, was charged…

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