Meera Syal
Nascimento : 1961-06-27, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
História
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Meera Syal MBE (born Feeroza Syal on 27 June 1961) is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42.
She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997 and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy.
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Aunt Smed (voice)
In this animated intergalactic adventure, the red Smeds and the blue Smoos must learn to overcome their differences and work together to find young Janet and Bill – who eloped to escape their families’ long standing rivalries.
Dr. Falmer
For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel.
Asha
Rhea descobre sua paixão em criar mixagens musicais que combinam as ricas texturas de sua cultura do Sul da Ásia e do mundo que a cerca. Sua vida gira em torno de seu eclético grupo de amigos, seu clube de programação depois da escola, o restaurante familiar indiano e sua família. Tudo muda quando ela se apaixona por Max, aspirante a DJ, e sua antiga e esquecida empolgação pela música ressurge. Rhea descobre que tem um dom natural para criar batidas e produzir música, mas precisa encontrar coragem para seguir seu verdadeiro talento interior.
Subisha Gulab (voice)
Depois que seu lar é ameaçado por humanos, um jovem dragão precisa reunir coragem para partir em busca de um lendário paraíso repleto de paz e liberdade.
Sheila Malik
Após sofrer um acidente, um cantor-compositor (Himesh Patel) acorda numa estranha realidade, onde ele é a única pessoa que lembra dos Beatles. Com as músicas de seus ídolos, o protagonista se torna um sucesso gigante, mas a fama tem seu preço.
Nina
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.
Cook
Clara, jovem esperta e independente, perde a única chave mágica capaz de abrir um presente de valor incalculável dado por seu padrinho. Safa na solução de problemas, ela decide então iniciar uma jornada de resgate que a leva pelo Reino dos Doces, o Reino das Neves, o Reino das Flores e o sinistro Quarto Reino.
Miss Phillips
Sarah é uma jovem mulher cuja vida está um pouco bagunçada. A última coisa que ela precisa é de alguém para cuidar. Ainda assim, gostando ou não, a avó dela lhe deixou um legado, um pug muito mimado – Patrick. Certamente ela deve ter tido seus motivos?
District Nurse
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birthing of Nye Bevan's vision of free healthcare for all people with personal stories of the NHS in British society today.
Meera
A sheltered Indian couple visits their son in the U.S. for the first time and bungles their apartment rental, ending up in close quarters with their hosts, a gay couple and their dogs.
Writer
Priti, a British-born Indian woman in the West Midlands, reports a violent incident in the street.
Priri
Priti, a British-born Indian woman in the West Midlands, reports a violent incident in the street.
Dr. Patel
Após sua carreira ser destruída, um brilhante, porém arrogante, cirurgião ganha uma nova chance em sua vida quando um feiticeiro o treina para se tornar o Mago Supremo.
Nurse
Apresentação teatral ao vivo da clássica peça de Shakespeare sobre dois adolescentes de famílias rivais cujo romance termina em tragédia
Nobody (voice)
Alice retorna após uma longa viagem pelo mundo, e reencontra a mãe. No casarão de uma grande festa, ela percebe a presença de um espelho mágico. A jovem atravessa o objeto e retorna ao País das Maravilhas, onde descobre que o Chapeleiro Maluco corre risco de morte após fazer uma descoberta sobre seu passado. Para salvar o amigo, Alice deve conversar com o Tempo para voltar às vésperas de um evento traumático e mudar o destino do Chapeleiro. Nesta aventura, também descobre um trauma que separou as irmãs Rainha Branca e Rainha Vermelha.
Narrator
Through ten carefully chosen cover versions that whisk us from the British Invasion to a noughties X Factor final, this film journeys over five decades to track how artists as varied as The Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Puff Daddy and Alexandra Burke have scored number 1s with their retake on someone else's song. Each of the ten classic cover versions has its own particular tale, tied not only into its musical and cultural context but also the personal testimony of the artists, producers and songwriters whose lives were changed in the process.
Fiona
Neil (Simon Pegg), um professor desiludido com a vida, vê sua vida mudar após ser atropelado por uma van e ser atingido por um raio alienígena que lhe dá poderes mágicos. Com eles, Neil pode fazer tudo que quiser: desde calar a boca de seus alunos até ressuscitar pessoas! O problema é saber utilizar as palavras certas para conseguir o que ele quer. O uso dessas novas habilidades vai gerar uma série de confusões.
Honey
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.
Jaspreet
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and brother, but frustrated by the boring grey world he inhabits. Life has never really been the same since his mum left. However, transformation can happen in the most unexpected places. Aided by Lisa, the coolest girl in the school, Dennis creates a whole new persona and puts it to the ultimate test - but can a boy wear a dress, and what will the headmaster, his dad and his friends on the football team think if they find out?
Beatrice
Iqbal Khan's vibrant and colourful production transposed Shakespeare's vivacious and sometimes unsettling comedy of love and deceit to an Indian setting.
Lopa
Atul e Vina estão enfrentando dificuldades no casamento, pois a vida de casado está sendo mais complicada do que imaginavam. E quando a lua de mel é cancelada, eles são obrigados a enfrentar uma crise na relação ao voltarem para a casa da família.
Dia's Mother
Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) e Helena (Gemma Jones) estão casados há 40 anos, até que um dia ele resolve que precisa recuperar a juventude perdida e decide pedir o divórcio. Helena fica destroçada com a notícia e, com o apoio da filha, Sally (Naomi Watts), passa a consultar periodicamente Crystal (Pauline Collins), uma vidente. Paralelamente Sally precisa lidar com o desejo crescente por seu novo chefe, Greg (Antonio Banderas), e com a crise em seu casamento com Roy (Josh Brolin), um escritor que apenas fez sucesso em seu livro de estreia e enfrenta dificuldades em concluir seu novo trabalho. Enquanto aguarda a resposta da editora sobre seu novo livro, Roy passa a flertar com sua nova vizinha, Dia (Freida Pinto), que sempre se veste de vermelho.
Pushpa Patel
Waris Dirie (Soraya Omar-Scego / Liya Kebede) nasceu em uma família de criadores de gado nômades, na Somália. Aos 13 anos, para fugir de um casamento arranjado, ela atravessou o deserto por dias até chegar em Mogadishu, capital do país. Seus parentes a enviaram para Londres, onde trabalhou como empregada na embaixada da Somália. Ela passa toda a adolescência sem ser alfabetizada. Quando vê a chance de retornar ao país, ela descobre que é ilegal da Somália e não tem mais para onde ir. Com a ajuda de Marylin (Sally Hawkins), uma descontraída vendedora, Waris consegue um abrigo. Ela passa a trabalhar em um restaurante fast food, onde é descoberta pelo famoso fotógrafo Terry Donaldson (Timothy Spall). Através da ambiciosa Lucinda (Juliet Stevenson), sua agente, Waris torna-se modelo. Só que, apesar da vida de sucesso, ela ainda sofre com as lembranças de um segredo de infância.
Rashmi
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt
Satvinder’s mother
London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki met his fiance Anaida at the Ritz in Paris and Alvira met her prince charming Steve at Madame Tussauds
Joe's Co-Passenger
Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) é uma estudante de jornalismo que está visitando alguns amigos em Londres. Ela vai ao show de mágica de Sidney Waterman (Woody Allen), que a chama ao palco para fazer o truque de desmaterialização. Sondra entra em uma caixa mas, enquanto o truque acontece, surge para ela o espírito do repórter Joe Strombel (Ian McShane), morto recentemente, que lhe oferece um grande furo: a identidade do assassino do tarô. Ele diz a Sondra que o assassino é Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), um aristocrata inglês. Sondra e Sid decidem investigar Lyman, mas ela acaba se apaixonado por ele.
Mary (The BFG)
To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters from British children's literature. But when the baddies, led by Cruella de Vil, discover that they have not been invited, they steal the Queen's handbag containing her spectacles and the text of her speech; without it, the Queen will not be able to make a speech at the party. Can the goodies find the handbag in time?
Auntie Shaila
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
Writer
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
High Priestess
A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.
Judith Adams
David O'Neil, um estucador e estudante maduro Theo, é o melhor amigo há catorze anos e é praticamente inseparável. No entanto, a amizade deles ficou tensa quando Theo está prestes a se mudar com sua namorada de longa data, a fotógrafa Hannah. Um ciúme furioso acorda em David e ele começa a planejar o fim do casal, usando as inseguranças de Hannah contra eles. Quando o casal finalmente se separa, David está em um dilema sobre seu próximo passo e é forçado a confrontar sua homossexualidade há muito escondida e seus sentimentos em relação a Theo. Eventualmente, David decide revelar publicamente sua orientação sexual e profundo amor por Theo, organizando para que ambos apareçam como convidados no talk-show de Judith Adams, "Perdoar e esquecer", com consequências trágicas para a amizade e a família de David.
Carmen
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...
Reporter
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
Miss Chauhan
Jamie Gangel vive no subúrbio londrino e costuma fugir da escola para cabular os jogos de futebol. Ele é vizinho de Ste Pearce, um rapaz popular e atlético, que frequentemente apanha do pai alcoólatra e do seu irmão mais velho. Notícias sobre a violência sofrida por Ste sensibilizam a mãe de Jamie, Sandra, que o acolhe em sua casa, e o rapaz passa, então, a dividir o quarto com Jamie. Durante a estada de Ste na casa dos Gangel, os dois rapazes desenvolvem sentimentos um pelo outro.
Sita
Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as possible.
Ranting woman
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour.
Unumma
Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her white mother.
Writer
A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.
Farah Khan
Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in name only. But with all three under one roof, Farah becomes increasingly insecure.
Writer
Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in name only. But with all three under one roof, Farah becomes increasingly insecure.
Rani
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
Voice Over
The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.
Cultural identity, women’s independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which explores both British-Asian experience and the plight of recent immigrants. Rita Wolf (My Beautiful Laundrette), plays Majdhar, a Pakistani woman who transforms herself in London after her husband leaves her for another woman. While Majdhar feels her way towards confident self-determination, husband Afzal is torn between his heritage and his Western aspirations.