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The Buddha of Suburbia

Original title: The Buddha of Suburbia

Year

1993

Rating

★ 5.9/10

Runtime

60 min

Seasons

1

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.

Cast: Naveen Andrews, Brenda Blethyn, Harish Patel, Jemma Redgrave, Roshan Seth, Steven Mackintosh, Susan Fleetwood, David Bamber