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• Bhaji on the Beach (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (14/07/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gurinder Chadha's debut feature Bhaji on the Beach is an empowering and cultured comedy about the bond between women regardless of age and background. A group of women, led by Simi (Shaheen Khan), leave their lives in Birmingham for a day out in Blackpool. Initially, the women seem not to have much in common due to their age gaps and different beliefs but by the end of the day, they learn of the bond they share and the significance of each other's company. Director Gurinder Chadha and screenwriter Meera Syal infuse a precise and slightly critical eye as well as a welcome warmth into this charming and funny story. Gurinder Chadha made her feature film debut with Bhaji on the Beach before having a smash hit with Bend it Like Beckham in 2002. Following a string of subsequent films she is now firmly established as arguably Britain's most successful British Asian filmmaker. Extras All extras tbc Gurinder Chadha's debut film The first feature film to be directed by an Asian woman in Britain

• Casualty | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of the BBC's flagship dramas Casualty depicts the lives of the patients doctors nurses and paramedics attending the frantically busy accident and emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Now approaching its twentieth year on television this is where it all started: the hard-hitting storylines; the accurate portrayal of life in the casualty department; and that theme tune. At a time when medical dramas produced in the UK were thin-on-the ground this was a truly ground-breaking show often eclipsing equivalent drama programmes from the other side of the pond. This 4 disc box set contains all the episodes from the third series. Episodes comprise: 1. Welcome To Casualty 2. Desperate Odds 3. Drake's Drum 4. Absolution 5. Burn-Out 6. A Quiet Night 7. A Wing And A Prayer 8. Living Memories 9. Inferno 10. Caring

• Bhaji On The Beach | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.70   |  Saving you £-0.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bhaji on the Beach is the directorial debut of Gurinda Chadha, which--like her next film, What's Cooking--features women as the central characters and seems to involve food at every turn. It's an ensemble piece, which takes a while to establish the characters' relationships with each other. But eventually the focus of the film--based on a story by Meera Syal--gets distilled to a group of women taken on a day trip to Blackpool by a progressive thinking "sister". The skies are suitably grey as they arrive in the English resort town, with the amusement arcades, takeaways and shop fronts looking tacky and run down. There's Ginder (Kim Vithana), who has run away from her violent husband, Hashida (Sarita Khajuria), who has a major decision to make and conservative aunties Asha (Lalita Ahmed) and Pushpa (Zohra Sehgal), not to mention youngsters Ladhu (Nisha K Nayar) and Madhu (Renu Kochar) who are just along for the excitement. As the day wears on, tension mounts between the different generations as secrets come out into the open. It matters little that the plot feels a touch contrived--particularly the convergence of significant characters towards the end--as there's a lot of energy in the performances. The result is a bit rough around the edges, but there's a lot to amuse here, not least in the colourful nod to Bollywood contained in Asha's many dream sequences. --Emma Perry

• Americanising Shelley | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £9.26   |  Saving you £-3.27 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hollywood meets Bollywood in Americanising Shelley - a Pygmalion-like tale of a Tinseltown hanger-on who attempts to transform a Himalayan village belle into an A-list American celebrity. Having recently arrived in America from a small village in the Himalayas Shalini discovers the man she was supposed to marry is far from the man of her dreams. Shalini sets out to seek her fortune in a foreign land where anything seems possible. Little does she realize that west-coast import Rob is attempting to make a name for himself in show-business and has recently been challenged by the CEO of a Hollywood management company (Beau Bridges) to pluck a superstar out of thin air. Now as Shalini becomes Shelley and Rob does his best to school the culturally inquisitive beauty in the ways of Western society the opportunity to see the world from an entirely different perspective prompts both to re-evaluate their lives as love blossoms and the quest for fame takes a back seat to romance.

• Pink Ludoos | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £12.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (4.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a community which values boys over girls Gugan a fiesty Indo-Canadian girl sets out on a collision course with her traditionally-minded mother (Shaheen Khan - Bend It Like Beckham) when she gets pregnant out of wedlock - with triplet girls! With her mother in meltdown and her ever-so-slightly alcoholic father more concerned with concealing his naughty secret Gugan's impending motherhood becomes the scandal of the year and divides her neighbourhood in two. The question is who will realise first that it's family rather than pride that's most important? With a cast of colourful characters - including Gugan's waster post-smoking boyfriend her secret fundamentalist admirer and a handsome stranger who changes her life forever Pink Ludoos is a delightful black comedy that highlights the contradictions faced by a traditional society trying its best to survive in the modern western world.