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A Private Enterprise is a British film of genre Drama with Diana Quick

A Private Enterprise (1975)

A Private Enterprise
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Length 1h18
Genres Drama
Rating67% 3.3603253.3603253.3603253.3603253.360325

A Private Enterprise is a 1974 British film directed by Peter K Smith. It stars Salmaan Peerzada as Shiv Verma, an Indian immigrant in Birmingham who attempts to start his own business. It is regarded as the first British Asian film.

Actors

Diana Quick

(Penny)
Marc Zuber
Barbara Keogh

(Dance Instructor)
Linda Regan

(Shop Girl)
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