Yasmin (Archie Panjabi) is a spirited woman whose life in the North of England has become a precarious balancing act as she attempts both to please her traditional Pakistani family and enjoy the freedoms of Western life. Having rebelled against her family as a teenager Yasmin yields to the demands of her widowed father and agrees to marry a cousin 'from home'. The omens are not good when the goat-herder from Pakistani village meets the vivacious Westernised Yasmin. After the shocki
In this admirable and hard-hitting British drama we get to see how the 9/11 disaster effected Muslims living in the UK. Set in a multicultural northern town, Yasmin, a young woman who has suffered an arranged marriage to a suspected terrorist, starts to resent what prejudices and restrictions the Muslim religion has brought on her. The characterisations are convincing and the script is intelligent, preferring to concentrate on how the Muslim community feels about the 9/11 attacks rather than how the non-Muslim public feel about Muslims. Luckily the narrative avoids melodrama, and instead shows us how blind a society can get through prejudice and confused hate.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Yasmin (Archie Panjabi) is a spirited woman whose life in the North of England has become a precarious balancing act as she attempts both to please her traditional Pakistani family and enjoy the freedoms of Western life Having rebelled against her family as a teenager Yasmin yields to the demands of her widowed father and agrees to marry a cousin &39;from home&39; The omens are not good when the goat-herder from Pakistani village meets the vivacious Westernised Yasmin After the shocking events of 911 Yasmin&39;s life begins to change; her innate sense of confidence starts to evaporate and she becomes increasingly ostracised at work Yasmin is only jolted out of her crisis of identity when she witnesses a brutal internment of her husband under the draconian rules of the anti-terrorism act The injustice of this event forces Yasmin to re-evaluate her faith her culture and her relationships The scene is set for a compelling and topical personal drama of what it means to be Asian Muslim and British in the 21st century Actors Archie Panjabi Shahid Ahmed Steve Jackson & Renu Setna Director Kenneth Glenaan Certificate 15 years and over Year 2004 Languages English - Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles None Listed Duration 1 hour and 21 minutes (approx)
Award-winning drama about a Muslim community in the north of England, set in the time just before and just after the September 11th attacks in America. Yasmin (Archie Panjabi) is a young Muslim woman managing to walk the divide between her Islamic upbringing and her western way of life, agreeing to an arranged marriage but still engaging with the British society in which she lives. All this changes after the September 11th attacks, when Yasmin's new husband is arrested under the anti-terror laws, and she experiences abuse at work. Yasmin must campaign to free her husband while undergoing a crisis in her sense of identity. Is she a Muslim first, or British, and is it still possible to be both at once?
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