Pakistani Bus Driver
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Birmingham Muslim bus driver Mohammed Yasin talks to reporter Alan Wallcroft about the time he stopped his bus at sunset to pray. We're several days after the event so unfortunately there are no eyewitness accounts from the passengers but it sounds like it was a pretty relaxed affair. Just in case we can't picture what it would have looked like Wallcroft gets Yasin to demonstrate his prayer style.
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.