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voisjoe1
Sep 14, 2013voisjoe1 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The real stars of this film are two great Pakistanis Saeed Jeffrey and Roshan Seth. One plays an alcoholic father who basically lies in bed each day and tries to arrange an improved life for his son. The other Pakistani star plays the alcoholic’s brother who is a corrupt businessman. This movie covers so many themes that I considered it to be an “ensemble” as it explored British skin-heads against Pakistani immigrants, gay lovers, potentially arranged marriages, drug smuggling, and the running of a launderette. The main interest I had was to see Daniel Day-Lewis, but he does not have a dominating role and I could not have predicted that he would someday possess the most Oscars for a best male actor. Today, one might ask if the skin head treatment of the Paskistanis might have been one of the causes of the Pakistani youth to become London Al Qaeda bombers.