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Chicken Tikka Masala
2005
It is celebration time for the Chopra family of Preston. Not only their only son Jimi is all set to become a doctor but is going to get engaged to the girl his family likes, Simran, who has come from India. She comes from a respectable Gujarati family, is well educated, pretty and above all, the only daughter of a very good and .. Read more
| Starring | Saeed Jaffrey, Jamila Massey, Zohra Sehgal, Sushil Chudasama |
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| Director | Harmage Singh Kalirai |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Indian Cinema |
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Chicken Tikka Masala
It is celebration time for the Chopra family of Preston. Not only their only son Jimi is all set to become a doctor but is going to get engaged to the girl his family likes, Simran, who has come from India. She comes from a respectable Gujarati family, is well educated, pretty and above all, the only daughter of a very good and old friend of the Chopra's. She's perfect in every way except one. She is not Jack, Jimi's true love.
| Starring | Saeed Jaffrey, Jamila Massey, Zohra Sehgal, Sushil Chudasama, Katy Clayton, Peter Ash, Sally Bankes |
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| Director | Harmage Singh Kalirai |
| Studio | PECCADILLO PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Indian Cinema |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Aug 2006 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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A British farce with plenty of laughs... if you liked MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE, BHAJI ON THE BEACH... you'll like this.
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A well-intentioned but simplistic culture clash comedy, set in Preston, in which Jimi Chopra (Chris Bisson) is... read more on Time Out
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23 out of 24 people found this review helpful
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well-meaning but inept
Why is it that with so many British-Asian films that try to break new grounds the words 'well-meaning' come to mind, along with 'inept'?
So many good ideas, so much of an atempt to address difficult issues like gayness among second-generation British Asians ... and so hopelessly done.
The cast is made up of every familiar Subcontinental actor in the UK, with Chris Bisson, the current rent-a-British-Asian-gay ('Shameless') in the main role, and what looks like the whole of Southall as extras.
The main problem, apart from the generally useless acting, is that there isn't the slightest element of credibility in the main gay relationship: the two actors barely touch until the very end, and even then it's a blokey arm-across-the-shoulders. I know this is done to avoid alienating conventional Asian audiences, but they threw in four-letter-words and the sounds of an overweight unmarried mother having sex, so why this coyness?
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23 out of 24 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
well-meaning but inept
Why is it that with so many British-Asian films that try to break new grounds the words 'well-meaning' come to mind, along with 'inept'?
So many good ideas, so much of an atempt to address difficult issues like gayness among second-generation British Asians ... and so hopelessly done.
The cast is made up of every familiar Subcontinental actor in the UK, with Chris Bisson, the current rent-a-British-Asian-gay ('Shameless') in the main role, and what looks like the whole of Southall as extras.
The main problem, apart from the generally useless acting, is that there isn't the slightest element of credibility in the main gay relationship: the two actors barely touch until the very end, and even then it's a blokey arm-across-the-shoulders. I know this is done to avoid alienating conventional Asian audiences, but they threw in four-letter-words and the sounds of an overweight unmarried mother having sex, so why this coyness?
Good intentions badly put across. Sadly, not a good film. -
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Chicken Tikka Masala
It is celebration time for the Chopra family of Preston. Not only their only son Jimi is all set to become a doctor but is going to get engaged to the girl his family likes, Simran, who has come from India. She comes from a respectable Gujarati family, is well educated, pretty and above all, the ...
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