| Title: | My Son the Fanatic | |
| Director 1: | Udayan Prasad | |
| Country: | UK/France | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| length: | 83 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Hanif Kureishi | |
| Cinematographer: | Alan Almond | |
| Editor: | Davis Gamble | |
| Producer: | George Faber | |
| Production company: | BBC/Arts Coucil of England/UGC/Zephyr | |
| Cast: | Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Stellan Skarsgard, Akbar Kurtha | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 1 | |
| Synopsis: | The friendship between Parvez, a Pakistani taxi driver, and Bettina, a young prostitute, develops into a deeper and more passionate relationship as Parvez's home life gradually crumbles. This is due to his son Farid's gradual rejection of Western institutions and values and acceptance of Islamic fundamentalism. Everything comes to a head when Farid and his group decide to rid the town of its corrupting influence. Parvez is forced to decide just where his loyalties lie.The film is based on the short story of the same title written by Hanif Kureishi. | |
| Keyword 1: | Asian | |
| Keyword 2: | religion | |
| Keyword 3: | fundamentalism | |
| Keyword 4: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Keyword 5: | gender | |
| Keyword 6: | North | |
| Keyword 7: | cab drivers | |
| Keyword 8: | white | |
| Keyword 9: | father-son relationship | |
| Keyword 10: | literature | |
| Keyword 11: | adaptation | |
| Keyword 12: | assimilation | |
| Keyword 13: | first generation | |
| Keyword 14: | second generation | |
| Text Reference 1: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 2: | Fundamental Truths | |
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