Sikh Matron
- Kinver
- 1985-10-13
Film introduces six young people of different nationalities. It attempts to show them integrating with one another within their own situations and also when they attemp to mix together in social activities.
Teenagers from different backgrounds talk about how their culture has affected their experience of growing up. Looks in particular at a Polish
club, where ther is music and dancing, a Sikh home where preparations are being made for a wedding, and a West Indian centre where a play is being rehearsed.
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.