Anita and Me
Overview
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
- Production
- Starfield Productions, EM Media, Emmi, Portman Film, BBC
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Cast
Chandeep Uppal
Meena Kumar
Max Beesley
Hairy Neddy
Anna Brewster
Anita Rutter
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Mr. Kumar
Kathy Burke
Mrs. Rutter
Kabir Bedi
Yeti
Ayesha Dharker
Mrs. Daljeet Kumar
Lynn Redgrave
Mrs. Omerod
Alex Freeborn
Sam Lowbridge
Mark Williams
The Reverend 'Uncle' Alan
Lucy Pargeter
Brenda
Meera Syal
Auntie Shaila
Kathy Burke
Mrs. Diedre Rutter
Zohra Sehgal
Nanima
Christine Tremarco
Sandy
Omid Djalili
Uncle Amman
Crew
- Director
- Metin Hüseyin
- Writers
- Meera Syal
- Producers
- Paul Raphael,Bill Allan,Peter Carlton,Keith Evans
- Cinematography
- Cinders Forshaw
- Composer
- Nitin Sawhney
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CinemaSerf
September 3, 2023
This is one of these gentle, tender, coming-of-age movies that raises the odd smile but is really pretty unremarkable. I can't speculate as to the degree in which it is semi-autobiographical of writer Meera Syal's own upbringing; but it centres around the story of a young British Asian girl "Meena" (Chandeep Uppal) whose family live in a town in the Midlands of England where she has to do her own growing up against a background of boredom and innate racial hostility. When the "Rutter" family mov…