The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
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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.
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Karim becomes a star and goes with Pyke’s play to New York.
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Eva leaves suburbia for the city. Karim becomes an actor and falls in love with Eleanor.
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Jamila’s betrothed, Changez, arrives from Bombay but he mainly wants to see Baker Street.
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In 1970s London we meet Karim, the son of an India father and an English mother.
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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.
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