Anita and Me is a British comedy/drama film released in 2002 based on the book Anita and Me by Meera Syal. It was released during a period of popularity for Anglo-Indian films, alongside films like East Is East, and Bend It Like Beckham.
Mina Kumar, a 12-year-old Hindu/Sikh girl, is living with her family in a predominantly white working class mining village in the West Midlands in 1972. It is then that Mina meets Anita, a white, 14-year-old girl...
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Anita and Me is a British comedy/drama film released in 2002 based on the book Anita and Me by Meera Syal. It was released during a period of popularity for Anglo-Indian films, alongside films like East Is East, and Bend It Like Beckham.
Mina Kumar, a 12-year-old Hindu/Sikh girl, is living with her family in a predominantly white working class mining village in the West Midlands in 1972. It is then that Mina meets Anita, a white, 14-year-old girl, who Mina comes to idolise. However, Mina 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 towards those he regards as "darkies". The film is semi-autobiographical, based on Syal's upbringing in Essington, Staffordshire.
Despite being set in the West Midlands, sizeable parts of the film were shot in the East Midlands, notably the Derbyshire town of Draycott.
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