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Anita and Me

Anita and Me is a 2002 British comedy-drama film directed by Metin Hüseyin and starring Chandeep Uppal, Kabir Bedi, and Anna Brewster. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Meera Syal. It was released during a period of popularity for British Asian films, alongside such as East Is East and Bend It Like Beckham.

Plot

Meena Kumar, a 11-year-old Sikh girl, lives with her family in the predominantly white, working-class, fictional mining village of Tollington in the Black Country in 1972. Meena meets Anita, a white, 14-year-old girl whom Meena comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in as her Indian heritage keeps on resurfacing, and Anita's new boyfriend proves to hold strong racist attitudes toward those he regards as "darkies".

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    contentLocation England
    director Metin Hüseyin
    editor Annie Kocur
    genre comedy-drama
    keywords black country indian mine non-resident indian and person of indian origin racism racist
    musicBy Barry Blue
    producer Paul Raphael
    productionCompany BBC Films
    publisher Icon Films
    theme female buddy