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Gurinder Chanda says "Bhaji on the Beach is a film about a group of Indian women from England who go to the seaside resort of Blackpool for the day and on the day various things happen and its a journey very much about being an Asian women in Britain at this moment in time. It's very much a new way, it's very much a new look at our experiences as Asians but also as British people in contemporary Britain and also I'm the first Indian woman to make a feature film in Britain." A group of ladies, of East Indian origin, mostly Punjabi-speaking, settled in Great Britain, decide to hire a bus and take a day off. They decide to go to a beach resort. In the early hours of the morning, they gather together and get ready for the ride on the bus. This is a day none of them will forget and some will ev
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