Sikh Matron
- Kinver
- 1985-10-13
Road movie shot in Gujarat and Rajasthan, India. Tashan, a young street urchin, is caught stealing a sheep. Branded and left for dead, he awakes and embarks on a journey through rural India. On a dirt road he meets Safia - whom he helps - and becomes a member of her family.
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.