Renowned theater practitioner Pravesh Kumar’s feature film directorial debut “Little English” will release in U.K. cinemas and go on a tour across the country from March 17. The f…
The film is set amidst a dysfunctional Punjabi family in the pressure cooker life of a terraced suburban home in Slough. Newly arrived from India, naive Simmy has come to marry the family’s eldest son Raj, who runs away, leaving Simmy locked in the house by her domineering mother-in-law. Simmy is smarter than she appears and enlists the support of the family’s disgruntled in-laws, including a sugar crazed, diabetic grandpa and a brother-in-law fresh out of jail.
Produced through Resource Productions CIC, a not-for-profit social enterprise, “Little English” formed part of a wider Kickstart Into Film project funded by Rothschild Foundation and the Inclusive Recovery The project enabled 10 unemployed young people to secure their first paid roles within the industry as trainees. In addition, more than 100 under-represented creatives, craftspeople and technicians of all ages, were able to step-up to a new role and/or gain their first credit on a feature film.
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