The dark humour of Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji on the Beach This 1993 film about a group of British-Indian women on holiday uses comedy to navigate themes of inherited cultural baggage. When Meera Syal was a child, her family would holiday in Blackpool. In the early 1990s the British-Indian playwright and actress told the then Channel 4 film commissioner Karin Bamborough that she’d like to write a film (her first) based on those trips to the seaside. Legend has it, Bamborough said yes on the spot. That film became 1993’s
Bhaji on the Beach, a dark comedy about an intergenerational gaggle of Indian women, and a subversion of the “British” summer holiday. It was the feature debut of a young director named Gurinder Chadha, and was nominated for Best British Film at the Baftas in 1995.
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Goldie began reading his script. The script was written with the minutest detail in mind and proved that the script writer had a deep understanding of the filmmaking process. This was not a script written only for the writer, but also for the director.
Goldie completed his reading, but Dev Anand didn’t react at all. The moment they reached their usual place of stay, Hotel Fredrick, Dev booked a trunk call on the hotel telephone. It was to his production manager, Thakkar.
‘Thakkar, book Kardar Studios for ten days. Production number eight has been postponed for some reason. We are starting production number nine and Goldie will be directing it.’
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