My Son the Fanatic (1999)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jun 25, 1999

Running Time: 86 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: Om Puri, Gopi Desai, Akbar Kurtha, Sarah-Jane Potts, Judi Jones, Geoffrey Bateman, Stellan Skarsgard, Harish Patel, Rachel Griffiths, Bernard Wrigley

director: Udayan Prasad

Parvez is a reserved taxi driver who has spent 25 years in England building a life for himself and his family. Minoo is Parvez' dutiful wife and Farid is Parvez' teenage son, who is consumed with preserving his roots in a multicultural country. The stability of Parvez' home is disrupted when Parvez begins to fall for a local prostitute, Bettina, and a German business man, Schitz, comes to town and challenges Parvez to live a more free lifestyler. Fundamentalism meets western hedonism over a kitchen table of an Asian family.

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My Son The Fanatic

Don't let this diamond-bright gem slip between the cracks. Hanif Kureishi, best known for My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, wrote the screenplay, about the cultural conflict between a father and son. It's been twenty-five years since Parvez (Om Puri) left Pakistan for England, where he supports his wife and son by driving a taxi. Parvez's assimilation of Western culture includes scotch, Louis Armstrong records and an affair with a prostitute, Bettina, well…