The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)

Cast

Naveen Andrews, Brenda Blethyn, Harish Patel, Jemma Redgrave, Roshan Seth

Overview

Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.