Sikh Matron
- Kinver
- 1985-10-13
The lives of four moslem families of different income groups living in Britain.
An 'insider's' view of the Muslim Community in Britain, showing the way of life of four families from differing backgrounds and different parts of India and Pakistan. Shows their efforts to preserve their own way of life without opting out of the culture of their adopted country.
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.