Chicken Tikka Masala Details

[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.

Funny and entertaining!

Considering the reviews I read here before watching the movie, I didnt expect it to be half as good as it was. But It was surprisingly entertaining and fairly funny. It is a low budget movie and that shows but it's simple, entertaining and funny. Quite realistic as well!