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Scenes from Movies an TV

Tariq Khan - West is West (Feature) Dir: Andy DeEmmony  (BBC films/Assassin Films)

Sequel to the internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning EAST IS EAST, WEST IS WEST takes the Khan family on a journey from Salford, England, to rural Pakistan.  WEST IS WEST is the coming of age story of both 13 year old Sajid and also of his father, 60 year old George (Ghengis) Khan (played by award winning actor Om Puri).  Manchester, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobically cohesive and desperately dysfunctional Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid (Aqib Khan), the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani traditions, and from the fierce racist bullies in the schoolyard. Isolated and bored, he resorts to bunking off school and shoplifting useless items to spice up his dull and lonely little life.
In a last attempt to make a good Muslim and a good son of him, his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 30 years earlier. Resolved to teach Sajid a lesson, the tables are turned on George when he comes face to face with his own transgressions, and realizes that it is he himself who has much to learn.
It is not long before Ella Khan [Mrs Khan No 2], with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
Stars: Om Puri, Jimi Mistry, Linda Bassett & Aqib Khan

Yousaf - The Arbor (Feature) Dir: Clio Barnard  (Artangel Media)

Andrea Dunbar was a British playwright whose work reflected the gritty realities of life in working-class Bradford, West Yorkshire. Dunbar knew of what she wrote -- she grew up in a Bradford housing project, had children by three different men, was a victim of domestic violence, and struggled with alcoholism before she died in 1990 when she was only 29. Andreas daughter Lorraine Dunbar inherited her gift with language, but also her weaknesses; she also dealt with unhappy relationships with men, worked as a prostitute, became addicted to hard drugs, and served time for manslaughter when her two-year-old son died after drinking her methadone. Filmmaker Clio Barnard set out to tell the story of Andrea Dunbar's brief, troubled life and the neighborhood where she lived and wrote, and The Arbor is a unique mixture of documentary and narrative filmmaking. In addition to interviews with members of Andrea Dunbar's family and residents of Bradford's Buttershaw estates, where Dunbar's plays took place (which are lip-synched by actors to create a distancing effect), the film includes passages from Dunbar's first play, also called The Arbor, played out against the real-life locations where the story is set. The Arbor received its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival where it picked up Best New Documentary Filmmaker prize.

Derek - Basement (Feature) Dir: Asham Kamboj  (Paperknife Productions)

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Returning from an anti-war demo, Gary (Danny Dyer - Severance) and four friends stop briefly in the countryside. Breaking from the group, Derek (Jimi Mistry - RocknRolla) and Saffron (Lois Winstone - Beyond the Rave) find a metal hatch in the middle of the forest, and decide to explore inside. Searching for their missing friends, Gary, Pru (Emily Beecham - 28 Weeks Later) and Sarah (Kierston Wareing - Fish Tank) are forced to follow, but as the hatch locks behind them all, the shadows that lurk in the darkness force the whole group to run for their lives...

Dr Satnam - 2012 (Feature) Dir: Roland Emmerich  (Centropolis Entertainment/Columbia pictures)

Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this $200,000,000+ apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following the prophecy stated by the ancient Mayan calendar, which says that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) joins the race to ensure that humankind is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser.

Dev - It's A Wonderful Afterlife (Feature) Dir: Gurinder Chadha  Bend It Films

A devoted Indian mother resorts to murder in hopes of helping her pleasantly plump daughter find a husband, but discovers that her plan is far from perfect when the spirits of her victims return to haunt her in this supernatural comedy from writer/director Gurinder Chadha.  Mrs. Sethi is an aging widow whose greatest fear is that her beloved daughter, Roopi will wind up alone. Frustrated at the repeated rejection she's forced to endure while attempting to find Roopi a respectable husband, Mrs. Sethi cooks up a lethal curry and serves it to anyone who turns her daughter away. Though the overprotective mother feels completely justified in her crimes, her situation takes a turn for the bizarre when her victims come back to reveal that they can only be reincarnated after their killer is laid to rest. Initially elated at the thought of a reunion with her late husband, Mrs. Sethi realizes that she can't take the final plunge until Roopi is happily married. With the police closing in fast, the restless spirits agree to help her find Roopi a husband so that everyone can live happily ever after. Sendhil Ramamurthy Mark Addy & Jimi Mistry co-star. 

Brown - Exam (Feature)  Dir: Stuart Hazeldine  Bedlam Productions

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.
The invigilator outlines three very specific rules that they must obey – and if they don't, they will be disqualified:

1. They must not speak to the invigilator or the guard.
2. They must not spoil their papers.
3. They must not leave the room.

The invigilator starts the clock and leaves.
The candidates turn over their question papers, only to find that they are completely blank.
Tensions rise as the clock counts down to zero, and each candidate must decide how far they are prepared to go to win the ultimate job.

Councillor - RocknRolla (Feature)  Dir: Guy Ritchie  Dark Castle Entertainment

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie heads back to the London underworld for this hyperkinetic crime comedy concerning a shady land deal that leaves every schemer in the city determined to get rich or die trying. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a lucrative real estate scam, every criminal in London wants a piece of the action. Greed is the universal language, and everyone from unrelenting crime boss Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) to street-smart criminal One Two (Gerard Butler), corrupt accountant Stella (Thandie Newton), and unpredictable punk rocker Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell) seem to speak it fluently. As the bullets start to fly and the double crosses multiply, there's no telling who will walk away with the fortune after the gun smoke has cleared. Jeremy Piven, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Jimi Mistry co-star