But it's the son's father, the moderate, who is the central character: an adaptive Indian cabbie in northern England, who has an ill-tempered wife ("What's wrong with Louie Armstrong?" he wants to know. Her response: "It's too trumpety") and a hidebound fundamentalist son, and who finds his only solace in the company of one of his regular customers, a lady of the evening. In Om Puri's sympathetic portrayal, the character comes alive as a rounded human being, but the movie around him tends toward steamroller overstatement. With Rachel Griffiths and Stellan Skarsgard; written by Hanif Kureishi; directed by Udayan Prasad. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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