Sikh Matron
- Kinver
- 1985-10-13
Less than eight weeks before the deadline imposed by Idi Amin runs out,
British Asians living in Uganda are understandably nervous at the prospect
of getting out of the country or facing Amin's threats of imprisonment.
Regarded by Amin and many African Ugandans as "exploiters of the economy",
Jonathan Dimbleby discusses the reasons for their success with Asians who have
made a life in Uganda through hard work and business initiative and asks what
future they see in returning to Britain.
From local news to feature film, through home movies and TV documentaries, this collection showcases South Asian Britons in front of and behind the camera. The contribution of colonial troops is illuminated through the earliest newsreels, while hardhitting current affairs programmes highlight the struggles faced in the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. Public information films produced for South Asian audiences feature alongside Hindi-language films made in Britain and interviews with prominent Asian-British figures. A bold wave of British Asian filmmaking in the 1990s is represented through early works by the likes of Gurinder Chadha and Asif Kapadia.