Amazon.co.uk: Anita & Me [2002]: Kabir Bedi, Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster, Kathy Burke, Ayesha Dharker, Omid Djalili, Alex Freeborn, Lynn Redgrave, Zohra Sehgal, Meera Syal, Christine Tremarco, Chandeep Uppal, Mark Williams, Lucy Pargeter, Metin Hüseyin: Video

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Anita & Me [2002]
VHS ~ Kabir Bedi

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Actors: Kabir Bedi, Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster, Kathy Burke
Directors: Metin H�seyin
Format: PAL
Language English, Hindi, Punjabi
Classification:
Studio: Icon Home Entertainment
VHS Release Date: 26 May 2003
Run Time: 93 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(6 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00008YNFF
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,416 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Anita & Me is the film of Meera Syal's novel about growing up in the Black Country in the early 1970s. Syal appears in the film, playing a somewhat terrifying aunt, and most of the cast will be just as familiar to anyone who has watched many BBC comedies: it also features Sanjeev Bhaskar (The Kumars at No. 42), Mark Williams (The Fast Show) and Kathy Burke (Harry Enfield & Chums, among others). Unfortunately their combined efforts are not quite enough to make Anita & Me more than mediocre.

Ironically the most glaring problem is with the respectable turn-out of comic acting talent--all of whom over-act mercilessly throughout. This may have been an effort to compensate for the stock nature of many of the characters: Bhaskar's ambitious Indian immigrant father, Williams' hippy vicar, Burke's lippy fishwife. The film's central relationship between an awkward adolescent Indian girl called Meena (Chandeep Uppal) and her slightly older English neighbour Anita (Anna Brewster) is rather better handled by the two young actors concerned, but there is nothing here that wasn't done a great deal better in the thematically similar East is East. --Andrew Mueller

Synopsis
Meena is a twelve-year-old living in the Midlands in 1972 with her Indian parents. They believe that by coming to England Meena has the chance of a better life but when Anita Rutter and her family arrive on the scene things start to change rapidly...