My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 British comedydrama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was also one of the first films released by Working Title Films.
Omar Ali is a young man living in Battersea in the Wandsworth area of South London, right by the railway station during the mid1980s. His father, Hussein known to the rest of the family as Papa, once a famous leftwing British Pakistani journalist in Bombay, lives in London but hates Britains society and its international politics. His dissatisfaction with the world and a family tragedy have led him to sink into alcoholism, so that Omar has to be his carer. By contrast, Omars paternal uncle Nasser is a successful entrepreneur and an active member of the London Pakistani community. Papa asks Nasser to give Omar a job and, after working for a brief time as a car washer in one of his uncles garages, he is assigned the task of managing a rundown laundrette and turning it into a profitable business.At Nassers, Omar meets a few other members of the Pakistani community Tania, Nassers daughter and possibly a future bride and Salim, who trafficks drugs and hires him to deliver them from the airport. While driving Salim and his wife home that night, the three of them get attacked by a group of rightwing extremist street punks. Their apparent leader turns out to be Johnny, Omars childhood friend. Omar tries to reestablish their past friendship, offering Johnny a job and the opportunity to adopt a better life by working to fix up the laundrette with him. Johnny decides to help with the laundrette and they resume a romantic relationship that it is implied had been interrupted after school. Running out of money, Omar and Johnny sell one of Salims drug deliveries to make cash for the laundrettes substantial renovation. ........
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