I’m British but...

Synopsis: Using the sound beats of Bhangra music and testimonies of young people from Glasgow, Belfast, London and South Wales, Gurinda Chada’s first film offers an insight into how a new generation of British Asians create their own identity by integrating Asian and Western history and culture. ‘The idea of the film’, says the director, ‘was to document what was going on in the late eighties in Britain as far as the British-born Asian community was concerned. It is very much a social document.' Chada, is now considered as the most successful of the new wave of Asian-British filmmakers in the 1990s; in 2002 she made the big hit BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1989
Subjects: Music; Sociology
Keywords: Asian communities; identity; young people; Great Britain; 1980s; music - Bhangra

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