My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Saeed Jaffrey	...	Nasser Ali
	Roshan Seth	...	Hussein Ali
	Daniel Day-Lewis	...	Johnny (as Daniel Day Lewis)
	Gordon Warnecke	...	Omar Ali
	Derrick Branche	...	Salim N. Ali
	Rita Wolf	...	Tania N. Ali
	Souad Faress	...	Cherry N. Ali
	Richard Graham	...	Genghis
	Shirley Anne Field	...	Rachel
	Winston Graham	...	Jamaican One
	Charu Bala Chokshi	...	Bilquis (as Charu Bala Choksi)
	Dudley Thomas	...	Jamaican Two
	Garry Cooper	...	Squatter
	Neil Cunningham	...	Englishman
	Persis Maravala	...	Nasser's Elder Daughter

Storyline

Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses and they do whatever they need to make money, even if the activities are illegal. As such, Nasser and his immediate family live more than a comfortable lifestyle, and he flaunts his riches whenever he can. Meanwhile, his brother, alcoholic Ali, once a famous journalist in Pakistan, lives in a seedy flat with his son, Omar. Ali's life in London is not as lucrative in part because of his left leaning politics, which does not mesh with the ideals of Thatcherism. To help his brother, Nasser gives Omar a job doing menial labor. But Omar, with bigger plans, talks Nasser into letting him manage Nasser's run down laundrette. Omar seizes what he sees as an opportunity to make the laundrette a success, and employs an old friend... Written by Huggo  

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