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Brick Lane (2007 film)

Brick Lane
Brick Lane poster.jpg
Directed by Sarah Gavron
Produced by Alison Owen
Written by
Starring
Music by Jocelyn Pook
Cinematography Robbie Ryan
Edited by Melanie Oliver
Release date
  • 16 November 2007 (2007-11-16)
Running time
101 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language
  • English
  • Bengali
Budget $2,5 million
Box office $3,8 million
Brick Lane
Soundtrack album by Jocelyn Pook
Released 19 November 2007
Genre Film soundtrack
Label Universal Classics
Producer Jocelyn Pook

Brick Lane is a 2007 British drama film directed by Sarah Gavron, at her directorial debut, and adapted from the novel of the same name by the British writer Monica Ali, published in 2003. The screenplay was written by Laura Jones and Abi Morgan.

The Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee played the lead role of Nazneen. The film had its first public screening at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States.

The film tells the story of Nazneen, who grew up in rural Bangladesh, in the district of Mymensingh. At 17 she has an arranged marriage to Chanu Ahmed, who is twice her age. They soon move to Brick Lane in London, the centre of the British Bangladeshi community. She leaves behind her sister and her family home.

Married to a man she does not love, Nazneen lives vicariously through the letters she receives from her sister about her carefree life. The film picks up the story after Nazneen and her husband have lived in a small flat for 16 years and been raising 2 daughters.

Nazneen becomes filled with desire for a young, good-looking clothing worker named Karim who visits her flat, and they have an affair. The movie takes place following the 9/11 attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda, and reflects a period of heightened racial tensions in Britain as well. The Bangladeshi Muslim community was becoming increasingly religious, as reflected in the character of Karim.

Tannishtha Chatterjee was the first actress who auditioned for the role of Nazneen. Two months after her initial audition, after Gavron had seen several hundred women, Gavron hired her. Both Christopher Simpson, who played Karim, and Chatterjee studied the Bangladeshi culture in Brick Lane by following around locals. Satish Kaushik was cast after Gavron saw a picture of him on the Internet. Since Brick Lane was his first English-language film, he took lessons from a diction coach to improve his accent.


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