2022 ( UK ) ( Comedy, Drama )
Starring: Rameet Rauli, Simon Rivers, Seema Bowri
Director: Pravesh Kumar
A laugh-out-loud story of a dysfunctional Punjabi family in the pressure cooker life of a terraced suburban home in Slough. Newly arrived from India, naive Simmy (Rameet Rauli) has come to marry the family’s eldest son Raj (Simon Rivers), who shockingly does a runner, leaving Simmy locked in the house by her domineering mother-in-law. However, Simmy is smarter than she appears, and soon enlists the support of the family’s disgruntled in-laws, including a sugar crazed, diabetic grandpa and dangerous, but hot, brother in law, fresh out of jail. Together they plan Simmy’s big escape.
Little English is a warm and prescient story about love, family expectations, and the former offering healing from the latter.
(1hr 38min)