Brothers in Trouble (1995)

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102 min - Comedy | Drama - 14 May 1997 (USA)

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Om Puri	...	Hussein Shah
	Pavan Malhotra	...	Amir
	Angeline Ball	...	Mary
	Ace Bhatti	...	Irshad (as Ahsen Bhatti)
	Bhasker Patel	...	Gholam
	Pravesh Kumar	...	Sakib
	Badi Uzzaman	...	Old Ram
	Harmage Singh Kalirai	...	Sher Baz
	Kumall Grewal	...	Akbar Dal
	Omar Salimi	...	Raja
	Pal Aron	...	Zamara
	Shiv Grewal	...	Shona Mian
	Lesley Clare O'Neill	...	Prostitute
	Kulvinder Ghir	...	Agent
	Riz Abbasi	...	Asif

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Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings. Written by Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>

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