Bhaji on the Beach

Bhaji on the Beach Hindi is a 1993 British comedy drama film by director Gurinder Chadha with a screenplay by Meera Syal.

A community group of British women mostly Punjabis of various faiths of all generations from Great Britain, take a group day out to the Blackpool Illuminations. The tensions of the generation gap torn between tradition and modernism as well as the personal upsets and issues of the women and girls come to boiling point as they spend the day out.Simi, the head of the group, has modern social beliefs about feminism that the older clubwomen object to, however she manages to be the caring, incontrol figure who holds the day together despite tensions. Ginder is escaping from her abusive criminal husband with her young son and fighting with the stigmatization of single motherhood and her sons pleas to have both a mother and father again. Two boycrazy teenage girls meet with the disapproval of the conservative older ladies. Hashida is a high flying student who is about to start medical school, yet would prefer to be studying painting. She has hidden her AfroCaribbean boyfriend Oliver from her family for a year, but now shes pregnant by him and now they must make decisions about the child and their relationship would it stand the strain of social disapproval. Aasha, a devout Hindu and Bollywoodcinema fan, is stuck with a humdrum life in her convenience shop and finds excitement and a sense of fulfilling missed opportunities in life with a charming, eccentric, artistic English actor in Blackpool, yet feels she must stay in her marriage. ........

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