Not really sure what this is going to be like but UK guppies may wish to watch it
Its on Channel 4 Thursday 13 Jan @ 10.00pm
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Yasmin
The second feature from Kenny Glenaan, whose award-winning Gas Attack so impressed, Yasmin is a welcome reminder that British film-making can tackle timely social issues in an engaging and entertaining way. Scripted by Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty, The Darkest Light) after months of research and workshops with the Muslim community in the North of England, Yasmin’s story explores what it means to be Asian, Muslim and British. Having rebelled against her Pakistani upbringing as a teenager, sparky, confident Yasmin (Archie Panjabi) has grown adept at juggling her Westernised working and social life with her more traditional culture at home. But after the attacks of 9/11 she finds herself ostracised at work, and increasingly subject to overt Islamphobia. When her husband is snatched by the police and held without charge, she finds herself forced to re-evaluate her faith, her culture and her relationships. The harsh realities of prejudice and discrimination in a climate of poverty and fear are never trivialised, but are treated with a refreshing degree of humour, irony and understatement.
i was looking for this all over the internet yesterday!! my sis read about it in a newspaper. thanks love...im definately going to watch it... :)
Channel 4 will also be showing a sitcom later on in the year, based in Glasgow about Asian gangsters...comedy sitcom i think, looks good and also stars that asian actor who was in Teachers.
dont know about you love, but im always flavour of the month :D
I just hope Channel 4 dont go over board...they sometimes do more harm than good...did u watch "the great British Asian Invasion" last year...i think it was late august time on channel 4...it was so stereotypical and very annoying.
Man I saw that Asian Invasion thing! If I wasnt a paki I would have laughed my ar$e off (actually I did!). But ur right, it was just some geezer on some stereotyping mission. They even put bengalis higher than us!
I just saw a trailor for Yasmim on tv - it seems interesting but Im sure it will show muslims to be backward and dangerous and this Yasmin bird is some kind of wild child who becomes a fundamentalist I think - Lots of references to Islamaphobia, 911, Osama etc in the trailor.
I dunno Channel 4 tries very hard but always seems a little out of its depth. They should leave this kind of thing to the Beeb. 'The man who broke britain' on bbc2 was ace.
i was going to watch it, but decided not too as im already pissed off at channel 4 for putting ER on Monday nights feckers
chick that Asian Invasion thing was pure comedy…do the remember the bit where they were teaching all the asians how to speak English? and all these women in one room are sitting repeating “this is a cup” in the most fabulous accent i have ever heard!!! i wish i taped it…
I don’t really watch national TV, stick to the Desi or Islamic channels.
Which is the Asian Invasion one? Is it the one wich showed an old uncle talking about when he first came to England and how they worked in the mills and factories and how Indians and Bengalis have made more progress than Pakis? If it were that I watched it on and off. The only problem I ad with that was the cartoon guy they used on the graph to reprsent Pakis didn’t look Paki at all, more Indian Madras/Chennai type I ought to put a complaint in. Other than that they are right we have made the least progress, Indians who came here were educated as it is so they got high professions and their children followed that trend, Bengalis were business minded people and opened up their businesses and now they’re chilling, our ealier generation were mostly uneducated from pinds so they got labouring jobs, working upto 20 hours a day 7 days a week and the kids were left to do awara-gardi so they got into drugs, fights, gangs like black boys and the trend continues so we’re heading downhill, that programe should have come as an eye opnener and we ought to sort our kids out, nothing wrong with being ghetto but not at the expense of your future, learn from the Sikh boys, they are ghettoish but still into their studies and stuff.
And u were so excited when I told u it was on!
Ok here goes just for u missy_m:
The film starts off with a young muslim girl called Yasmin leaving her home for work dressed in full hijaab and abayaa in her golf GTI convertable. En-route, she pulls overs in a some fields and slips into jeans etc and the hijaab comes off and goes off to meet her work colleague/ gorah boyfriend. The film is set up north somewhere.
She is a fairly typical uk paki, lives with her father (old budda/community man with mosque links) and bro (who is a drug dealer) and is married to a proper freshie pakis who cant even speak english. She has nothing to do with him - its just a paper marriage to keep her father happy.
Her character is quite likeable and she tries hard to keep everyone happy - works -cooks - cleans and even helps the other asian women with hospital appts etc. She is liked at work and though she is up to no good, she doesnt drink etc or pray etc.
Anyway she is invloved with this gorah from work and he has no idea she is married. Her plan is to divorce the freshie as soon as he becomes permanent.
Her father is a soft guy who just wants his girl to be happy - you kind of feel for him.
Then one day in work everyone is watching the news reports - 911 has just happend. From that day on, Yasmin, friend of all is suddenly public enemy number one. After a load of harrassment from colleagues she comes home to realise her house has been raided by the police and they take her hubby in as a suspected terrorist. The offer bribes to her bro to give info on key people in the mosques etc which he refuses.
She tries hard to fit in, in work but it fails - she ends up going to the pub and getting drunk and making a fool of herself. Her gorah mate starts to distance himself from her due to the bad publicity muslims are getting.
Her hubbys nationlity has come through so she goes to prison to try and meet him to get him to sign the divorce papers but they turn on her and arrest her on suspicion too. She is given a quran in her celll and she starts to take an interest.
They try to cut a deal, tell us some info on her hubbys alleged terror links (which dont exist) and we will send him back to pak and get her out of her forced marriage. She refuses as she doesnt want to wrong a man even though she hates him.
Eventually they both get released and they agree to a divorce. Both her and her bro became a bit more islamic etc. She bumps into the gorah one day and he is still shocked by the fact that she was married and kept it secret. He asks her if she want to go for a drink and she replies, Im going to the mosque wanna come?A bit more happens and then it ends!
Crap summaryby me I know - but thats a bit like it happened! Interesting film though.
No problems Missy_M. Parts of the film where over the top as you would expect. For example the freshie cooks paki tea in the garden on an open fire like they do back home. And one day he brings a goat home which starts to live in the back garden.
The good thing was that unlike a lot of dramas about muslims in the west that usually have some obscene sexual contents just to really make out that muslims are wicked and offend viewers etc and thankfully there was none of that in this.
Most of the time you cant watch things like this with the family but this wasnt that bad.
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The good thing was that unlike a lot of dramas about muslims in the west that usually have some obscene sexual contents just to really make out that muslims are wicked and offend viewers etc and thankfully there was none of that in this.
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That's the reason I just watched "Georgeo and Martha' instead, mum was in the living room and I didn't want anything dodgy happening in Yasmin, I'm not happy about missing it though.
From what you say about it, one thing that annoys me is that they were trying to make arranged marriages look bad, they are not, forced are, but not arranged and usaually if the girl doesn't like the guy she says so, I come from a very coservative part of Punjab and it's perfectly fine for our women to accept or reject prposals or even choose her own husband, if she likes a guy in the community she'll usally tell her mum and they'll take it from there or her parents'll suggest young men, arranged is over demonised, the only reason we have arranged is coz slutting around and dating is a no no for us.
Another thing I'm pissed off about is how many Yasmeens do you see dating white guys??? All Desi Kurri's I know say "goray are not mard", yes some Muslim girls do date which is bad but they stick to Desi Muslim guys and usually end up marrying the same one (not that that makes it right) and the ones who are at college with me say they are not sexually active, It's very rarely that I've come across a Desi guy or girl who says a non-Desi does anything for them, it's usally only the ugly gora wannabe's.
well i agree there are not many who are dating “goras” and also agree they mostly stick to muslim asians. not all yasmeens dates. mostly they smoke atleast!
but i dont agree they are not sexually active. most of them are!! and most of them never admit it. I know quite a few asian girls back from uni, they never admited even bf sleeping in their rooms in hostel. you know they are just for care
it was later when some got pregnent and some seen waking up from bf beds.
oh coming back to film, I have watched it last night. its true on some parts and they gone too far from reality on some points. not many yasmeens are like that, may be most “freshies” are like that. it happens when a guy brought from a remote village to entirely different society.
Nothing new, no depth, no humour, bad acting, stereotypes taken to their ultimate extremes, ending up with a comic book approach which was done better in east is east.
Paki neighbouhood vibe was about right, but the dialogue sucked the big one, the odd punjabi/urdu lines the actors spewed out now and again were with english accents!
It lacked imagination and didn't tell us anything new, or even something old in a new way.
feckers
i wish i taped it…
I ought to put a complaint in. Other than that they are right we have made the least progress, Indians who came here were educated as it is so they got high professions and their children followed that trend, Bengalis were business minded people and opened up their businesses and now they’re chilling, our ealier generation were mostly uneducated from pinds so they got labouring jobs, working upto 20 hours a day 7 days a week and the kids were left to do awara-gardi so they got into drugs, fights, gangs like black boys and the trend continues so we’re heading downhill, that programe should have come as an eye opnener and we ought to sort our kids out, nothing wrong with being ghetto but not at the expense of your future, learn from the Sikh boys, they are ghettoish but still into their studies and stuff.