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Anita and Me is a British film of genre Drama with Chandeep Uppal
Anita and Me (2002)
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Add to a movie listAnita and Me is a British comedy-drama film released in 2002 based on the book of the same name by Meera Syal. It was released during a period of popularity for British Asian films, alongside such as East Is East and Bend It Like Beckham.
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Meena Kumar, a 12-year-old Sikh girl, lives with her family in the predominantly white, working-class, fictional mining village of Tollington in the Black Country in 1972. Meena meets Anita, a white, 14-year-old girl whom Meena comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in as her Indian heritage keeps on resurfacing, and Anita's new boyfriend proves to hold strong racist attitudes toward those he regards as "darkies".Actors
Chandeep Uppal
(Meena Kumar)
Kabir Bedi
(Yeti)
Anna Brewster
(Anita Rutter)
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Ayesha Dharker
(Mrs. Daljeet Kumar)
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