Title: | Second Generation | |
Director 1: | Jon Sen | |
Country: | UK | |
Year: | 2003 | |
length: | 2 x ca. 75 mins | |
Colour/b-w: | colour | |
Genre: | TV drama | |
Screenwriter: | Neil Biswas | |
Cinematographer: | Sean Bobbitt | |
Editor: | David King | |
Producer: | Catherine Wearing | |
Production company: | An Oxford Film and Television Production for Channel 4 | |
Cast: | Om Puri, Parminder Nagra, Anupam Kher, Roshan Seth | |
Location: | TABB | |
TABB No.: | 115 | |
Synopsis: | This two-part television drama tells the story of two Asian families, one Hindu, one Muslim. Through economic dependencies on the one hand and misunderstandings and conflicts between the younger and the older generation on the other, the TV play addresses the diversity among Britain's Asian communities. The production also focuses on guilt and love/hate relationships as well as on entrepreneurship and Asian popular music and club culture. | |
Keyword 1: | Asian | |
Keyword 2: | gender | |
Keyword 3: | religion | |
Keyword 4: | mixed-race relationship | |
Keyword 5: | class | |
Keyword 6: | sexuality | |
Keyword 7: | family | |
Keyword 8: | music | |
Keyword 9: | youth | |
Keyword 10: | workplace | |
Keyword 11: | tradition | |
Keyword 12: | father-son relationship | |
Keyword 13: | first generation | |
Keyword 14: | second generation | |
Keyword 15: | economy | |
Keyword 16: | father-daughter relationship | |
Keyword 17: | patriarchy | |
Keyword 18: | cultural identity | |
Keyword 19: | love |
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