a book is this popular, it s always very difficult doing an adaptation. yes. there were moments in this in which i could almost hear the book behind it, thinking, ok, i can sort of see what the text would have been. the performances are good. i mean, it s a very good cast, its very well done. the production design is really beautiful. but it all feels very safe. it deals with some dark subject matter, but it feels like a very polite treatment of that subject matter. and i kept thinking, somewhere in here, there is an earthier, grittier version of this story, but it s kind of got a touch of the nick sparks about it. itjust felt oddly bland. that s not to say it s bad, and it may well be that if you have read the book, you get more out of it. but i did think, ok, it s kind of. like i said, despite that swampy setting, it had a very lukewarm feeling and i didn t get emotionally involved in the way that i had expected to, so.
it deals with some dark subject matter, but it feels like a very polite treatment of that subject matter. and i kept thinking, somewhere in here, there is an earthier, grittier version of this story, but it s kind of got a touch of the nick sparks about it. itjust felt oddly bland. that s not to say it s bad, and it may well be that if you have read the book, you get more out of it. but i did think, ok, it s kind of. like i said, despite that swampy setting, it had a very lukewarm feeling and i didn t get emotionally involved in the way that i had expected to, so. because reese witherspoon options some interesting things, doesn t she? yeah. and she loves stories that put women at the heart of it, and that attracted me to it. but i haven t read the book either. well, it s the ethos of her production company is, you know, stories, women are right at the heart of the production and the stories themselves. i mean, you know, she s a great force in cinema.
yeah. when i came over, i still regarded myself as indian because of the way we were living and the language and so on. later on, i probably thought, well, i m more sort of like a british indian, rather than english english, because there always seemed to be somebody telling me that i m not english. right. for me, learning punjabi growing up made it much easier for me to feel connected to the punjabi part of myself in my life. growing up in leicester, there was a sizeable south asian presence. you didn t actually have as many sort of run ins with overt racism until your late teens, early adult life. what was the effect? what did it feel like? well, itjust felt, ok, now i know that, you know, i am not english english. no matter what i do, how eloquently, fluently i speak english, you know,
and so on. later on, i probably thought, well, i m more sort of like a british indian, rather than english english, because there always seemed to be somebody telling me that i m not english. right. for me, learning punjabi growing up made it much easier for me to feel connected to the punjabi part of myself in my life. growing up in leicester, there was a sizeable south asian presence. you didn t actually have as many sort of run ins with overt racism until your late teens, early adult life. what was the effect? what did it feel like? well, itjust felt, ok, now i know that, you know, i am not english english. no matter what i do, how eloquently, fluently i speak english, you know, i m not going to be english. it s really interesting
later on, i probably thought, well, i m more sort of like a british indian, rather than english english, because there always seemed to be somebody telling me that i m not english. right. for me, learning punjabi growing up made it much easier for me to feel connected to the punjabi part of myself in my life. growing up in leicester, there was a sizeable south asian presence. you didn t actually have as many sort of run ins with overt racism until your late teens, early adult life. what was the effect? what did it feel like? well, itjust felt, ok, now i know that, you know, i am not english english. no matter what i do, how eloquently, fluently i speak english, you know, i m not going to be english. it s really interesting that my dad identifies very specifically as british indian. because that s not how i feel, but i totally understand. he s of the generation