Brick Lane
Brick Lane brings Monica Ali's acclaimed novel to life although Brick Wall might be a more appropriate title as that is what Nazeem the main character seems to constantly be up against. Her carefree preteen life in Islamic Bangladesh abruptly come to an end with her mothers depression fuelled suicide and only a few years after that she’s uprooted into an arranged marriage with a self professed educated man whose hubris, self righteousness and even playfulness is perfectly emoted by Satish Kaushik. Nazeem is played with such crushing melancholy by India’s lovely Tannishtha Chatterjee who out of necessity takes on work as a seamstress. Rather than being menial, the work turns out to be liberating and hr dreary existence really starts to fade when she become involved with a handsome countryman born in England. As their passion heats up so do race relations in Great Britain – both or which come to a head around September 11th 2001. At that point everyone starts to reassess the position that they should take.