| Title: | Bhaji on the Beach | |
| Director 1: | Gurinder Chadha | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1993 | |
| length: | 100 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Meera Syal, Gurinder Chadha | |
| Cinematographer: | John Kenway | |
| Editor: | Oral Norrie Ottley | |
| Producer: | Nadine Marsh-Edwards, Paul Sarony | |
| Production company: | Channel Four/First Look Pictures/Umbi Films | |
| Cast: | Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 66 | |
| Synopsis: | A group of women from an Asian women's centre in Birmingham take a day trip to see the Blackpool illuminations. Along with them go problems such as an unwanted pregnancy and a family splitting apart, and several menfolk are soon following the women up the motorway. Cultural differences, not only with the English but also within the group, play their part as some possible solutions begin to emerge. | |
| Keyword 1: | Asian | |
| Keyword 2: | women | |
| Keyword 3: | gender | |
| Keyword 4: | seaside | |
| Keyword 5: | Midlands | |
| Keyword 6: | generation | |
| Keyword 7: | food | |
| Keyword 8: | Bollywood | |
| Keyword 9: | pregnancy | |
| Text Reference 1: | Gurinder Chadha and The 'Apna' Generation: Black British Film in the 1990s (Interview) | |
| Text Reference 2: | Representing the Spaces of Diaspora in Contemporary British Films by Women Directors | |
| Text Reference 3: | Frontline: Meera Syal (Interview) | |
| Text Reference 4: | A Fuller Picture: The Commercial Impact of Six British Films with Black Themes in the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 5: | Hybride Kulturen: Die postkoloniale Identitätsdebatte im 'Black British Film' | |
| Text Reference 6: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 7: | Cultural Difference and Exchange: A Future for European Film | |
| Text Reference 8: | Bhaji on the Beach | |
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