Directed by:
Sarah GavronCinematography:
Robbie RyanComposer:
Jocelyn PookCast:
Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Zafreen, Lasco Atkins, Lalita Ahmed, Bernard HolleyPlots(1)
At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneens life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in Londons East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life. Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Tannishtha Chatterjee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/639/158639262_6924a3.jpg)
Tannishtha Chatterjee
India
Best movies:
Parched (2015)
Lion (2016)
Angry Indian Goddesses (2015)
![Satish Kaushik](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/948/159948681_bb90d2.jpg)
Satish Kaushik
India
Best movies:
Udta Punjab (2016)
Yeh Saali Aashiqui (2019)
Brick Lane (2007)
Christopher Simpson
Ireland
Best movies:
Brick Lane (2007)
Code 46 (2003)
Chromophobia (2005)
Zafreen
Best movies:
Brick Lane (2007)
Lasco Atkins
China
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Batman Begins (2005)
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Lalita Ahmed
India
Best movies:
Eastern Promises (2007)
Brick Lane (2007)
Love These Days (2009)
Bernard Holley
UK
Best movies:
Brick Lane (2007)
Taggart (1983) (series)
Ahead of the Class (2005) (TV movie)