BHAJI ON THE BEACH film screening Portland Art Museum’s tomorrow theater Thursday, August 29th

DJ Anjali presents a screening of Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham)’s debut film, Bhaji on the Beach. Prior to the screening, Anjali will spin a retro 80’s & 90’s UK Desi set. Tickets $15. Doors & DJ set 6:30PM, Film 7PM.

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1993. Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Runtime: 101 minutes. Rated R. The debut feature from director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice and Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Perfect Snogging) and screenwriter Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me, Anita and Me and Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee) focuses on the various experiences of a group of British Indian women. A group from the Saheli Asian Women’s Group take a day-trip to Blackpool. Included in this group are: Ginder (Kim Vithana), a victim of an abusive relationship who is refusing to stand by her man (much to the chagrin of her elders); Hashida (Sarita Khajura), an unmarried teenage mum-to-be who is shunned by the same elders for her interracial relationship; and Asha (Lalita Ahmed), a respectable shop assistant who escapes into a fantasy world from her drab day-to-day existence when she is charmed by a local playboy thespian. Also along for the day are a middle-class Bombay woman dripping with over-the-top glamor, and a couple of boy-crazy teenage girls.

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