Bhaji on the Beach [SEP] director
Bhaji on the Beach
Bhaji on the Beach (Hindi: भाजी ऑन द बीच) is a 1993 British comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and written by Meera Syal.
Plot.
A community group of British women (mostly Punjabis of various faiths) of different generations, take a group day out to the Blackpool Illuminations. The tensions of the generation gap torn between tradition and modernism as well as the personal upsets and issues of the women and girls come to boiling point as they spend the day out
Indian girl who ran away from home to become an actress. First performed at the Stephen Joseph Studio, she then performed it at the National Student Drama Festival where it won a prize to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival, where it also won a prize. As a result, a director from the Royal Court Theatre contacted Syal, and asked her to perform in a play at the Royal Court on a three-year contract.
Syal wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film "Bhaji on the Beach", directed