Price
- £6.50 Full Price
- £5.50 Concessions
- £4.50 Student Members
Length
- 99
A shared love of old South Asian films brings an emigrant Pakistani mother and daughter together in this warm-hearted, time-shifting Urdu and English languages comedy drama about cultural and generational divides.
After the sudden death of her father, graduate student Azra flies to her ancestral home in Pakistan to be reunited with her grieving mother Mariam, with whom she has had a rocky relationship since she came out as a lesbian.
Struggling to fit in with the stern Mariam’s image of the perfect daughter, Azra is transported – through Bollywood-inspired flashbacks – to 1960s Karachi, sparking a connection between her mother’s wild youth in a more permissive era of Pakistani life, and her own world in ’90s Canada, and boosted by their shared admiration for Bollywood star Sharmila Tagore.
