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Sixth Happiness [1997] [DVD]

DVD ~ Nina Wadia
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  • Actors: Nina Wadia, Indira Varma, Meera Syal
  • Directors: Waris Hussein
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Mar 2005
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B0007KI8TI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 36,346 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Based on the autobiographical novel by Kanga. A boy is born with brittle bones in Bombay in 1962.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The stunning fluency of being different - an irrepressible whirl into a young teen's 1970's pro-Britain Bombay life, 8 Dec 2007
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This film came out in the late 1990's, when everything India was suddenly fashionable. But this film is much more than that. It's about Brit - a charismatic young man in Bombay who has brittle bones. Brit is part of the small but fluent, distinctive and amusing community - the Parsees. The Parsees (Freddie Mercury being their most successful export) are descendants of the Persian empire who escaped Persia to resist the Islamic invasion. They settled more than a thousand years ago in western India, maintaining their uniquely distinct status.

Parsees had a close relationship with the British during the years of the Empire. Brit is named both after his brittle bones, and after Britain, by his mother, reflecting her extraordinary love for everything British. The depiction of Brit's parents as ardent Anglophiles ("The only war I remember is the war I fought, on Britain's side," declares Brit's mother) with fond memories of the Raj (his mother stores tubs of Marmite and Huntley and Palmer toffees in her 1970's Bombay wardrobe) presents a glimpse of a non-stereotypical seductively amusing Indian Parsee family.

This, along with the moving story of a Brit's sexual awakening as family life suddenly crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness a fluent and erotic exploration of the modern and urban Bombay of today. Firdaus Kanga who wrote the screenplay and who plays Brit is writing mainly about his own life. Brit is bright, spiky, opinionated and selfish with a razor-sharp wit. In the film, the young teen switches allegiances from Shakespeare to the Kama Sutra, seduces his male flatmate, and then the flatmate's stunning girlfriend Amy. Brit refuses to let gender, disability or his increasingly watchful mother to come in the way of his desire for intimacy, hot passion, sex and love. The film is poignantly happy, celebrating the joy and embarrassment of being different and revelling in it. The fact that Firdaus Kanga largely bases it on his own life gives the film a punchy life-size reality that you couldn't get with a team of screen writers.

Sixth Happiness opens with a giddy tango sequence by Brit's Anglophile parents. It ends with the same music but with a delightful whirl of a dance by Kanga in his wheelchair that is poignant and irrepressibly fun.

With powerhouse performances from Kanga and Souad Faress (The Archers, Radio 4), Nina Wadia (Goodness Gracious Me), Indira Varma (Bride and Prejudice, Kama Sutra) and Meera Syal (The Kumars at No. 42), Sixth Happiness manages to turn just about every stereotype about India, and sexuality on its head. It's a film that is tenderly erotic yet extraordinarily sunny, pointing us to one view - that life is to be lived, and to the joy we find when we open ourselves up to be hurt and loved.
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