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Amna Saleem was excellent. Amna (Kiran
Sonia Sawar) is a modern Asian woman who has to reconcile her background with
her day-to-day living, as when she brings her boyfriend Theo (Tom Stourton) to
an Eid celebration. She thinks she’s
pulled the wool over the eyes of her mother and father (Sudha Bhurchar and
Bhasker Patel), but neither is fooled—thinking they have to keep up the
pretence to please the other, more conservative parent. Her uncle and aunt (Anil Goutam and Nina
Wadia), however, are dreadful. Her
brother Haris (Omar Raza) has rejected his British Asian status to be a regular
old Scottish lad, whereas younger sister Sunnah (Amna Saleem) is much more
orthodox. It was very funny and taught
me a lot about the day-to-day lives of Scottish-Asian Muslims. I do hope we’ll hear more from these
characters and this writer. It was
produced by Ed Morrish and was a Somethin’ Else production.
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