Anita and Me (film)

Anita and Me (film)

Infobox Film
name = Anita and Me


image_size = 200px
caption = Movie poster
director = Metin Hüseyin
producer = Paul Raphael
writer = Meera Syal
narrator =
starring = Chandeep Uppal
Kabir Bedi
Anna Brewster
music = Barry Blue
Lynsey De Paul
cinematography =
editing = Annie Kocur
distributor =
released = 2002
runtime = 92 minutes
country = UK
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0303661

"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 was released during a period of popularity for Anglo-Indian films, alongside films like "East Is East", and "Bend It Like Beckham".

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 comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in, as her Indian heritage keeps on resurfacing, and Anita's new boyfriend proves to hold strong racist attitudes towards those he regards as "darkies". The film is semi-autobiographical, based on Syal's upbringing in Essington, Staffordshire in England.Despite being set in the West Midlands, sizeable parts of the film were shot in the East Midlands, notably the Derbyshire town of Draycott.

Cast

*Meena Kumar - Chandeep Uppal
*Anita Rutter - Anna Brewster
*Mr Kumar - Sanjeev Bhaskar
*Mrs Kumar - Ayesha Dharker
*Deirdre Rutter - Kathy Burke
*The Yeti - Kabir Bedi

External links

*imdb title|id=0303661|title=Anita and Me
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/10/17/anita_and_me_2002_review.shtml/ BBC review]
* [http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=D5FD9B420eeaf2E8F2nPmTCEE9DF/ Britfilms entry]


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