A Private Enterprise
An ambitious Indian university graduate has to struggle to live his entrepreneurial dreams against both the British social structure and his own family's stubborn traditional values.
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"This is generally reckoned to be the first British-Asian film, though it has since largely been forgotten about. The film focuses on Shiv Verma (played by Salmaan Peerzada), an Indian immigrant living in Birmingham keen to start his own business and the story is largely taken up with his futile efforts to get this off the ground. Along the way he clashes with his traditionally-minded uncle and gets involved in a strike at the factory where he and many other Indian immigrants work. A chance encounter with an English girl (Diana Quick) on the train raises the prospect of romance, but it soon bec..."
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Linda Polan's debut.
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An ambitious Indian university graduate has to struggle to live his entrepreneurial dreams against both the British social structure and his own family's stubborn traditional values.