| Title: | Buddha of Suburbia, The | |
| Director 1: | Roger Michell | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1993 | |
| length: | 236 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | TV drama | |
| Screenwriter: | Hanif Kureishi, Roger Mitchell | |
| Cinematographer: | John McGlashan | |
| Editor: | Kate Evans | |
| Producer: | Kevin Loader, Michael Wearing | |
| Production company: | BBC TV | |
| Cast: | Roshan Seth, Naveen Andrews, Susan Fleetwood, Brenda Blethyn | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 45 | |
| Synopsis: | This is the story of Karim Amir who seeks to escape the dreary life in the suburbs and sets out to discover life in central London. However, life in 1970s London is not only exciting and thrilling for Karim. On his way to becoming an actor, Karim faces a number of difficulties in finding his own place in British society. This high-budget television miniseries is based on Hanif Kureishi's novel "The Buddha of Suburbia". | |
| Keyword 1: | migration | |
| Keyword 2: | British | |
| Keyword 3: | family | |
| Keyword 4: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Keyword 5: | London | |
| Keyword 6: | father-son relationship | |
| Keyword 7: | first generation | |
| Keyword 8: | second generation | |
| Keyword 9: | tradition | |
| Keyword 10: | gender | |
| Keyword 11: | racism | |
| Keyword 12: | literature | |
| Keyword 13: | adaptation | |
| Keyword 14: | Asian | |
| Keyword 15: | homosexuality | |
| Text Reference 1: | The Buddha of Suburbia | |
| Text Reference 2: | Hanif Kueishi and 'The Brown Man's Burden' | |
| Text Reference 3: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 4: | If you want to know about London ... It's a laundrette in Peckham: Black British Directors and Screenwriters Visualise the Metropolis | |
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