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Bhaji on the Beach

1993

Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria, Akbar Kurtha ...

Drama. Comedy A group of women of Indian descent take a trip together from their home in Birmingham, England to the beach resort of Blackpool. The women vary in ages from mid-teens to old, and initially have little in common. But the events of the day lead them to better mutual understanding and solidarity.

	Author	Review
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"An insightful look at the difficulties of bridging cultures and generations, but it never forgets to have fun"	POS
United Kingdom	Marcus Trower Empire	"Chadha lifts the piece some way from its workaday premise, yet her main method of generating dramatic sparks and laughs, by bringing cultures into head-on collisions (...) is too obvious to really engage (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Deborah Young Variety	"'Bhaji' gets a lot of laughs at the expense of the extended Anglo-Indian family (...) Sexism and racism are treated comically, without losing their sting (...) Pace is fast"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Plot and motivation are both contrived, but once the story gets going, first-time director Gurinder Chadha extracts maximum fun from her sedate matrons and wild teenagers"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Given the fact that every older generation believes all of its values have been lost by the young, it is a wonder there are any left to pass along (...) but there are - and the way the movie makes that clear is one of its strengths (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Watchable but generally ho-hum (...) The overall style is realist, though there are a few fleeting fantasy interludes that don't work very well"	NEU

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