Brick Lane
U/A; Drama
Dir: Sarah Gavron
Cast: Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee
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What's it about: Essentially a story of self-discovery, Brick Lane follows Nazneen (Tannishtha) from her village in Bangladesh to London's Banglatown. Married off at 17 to Chanu (Kaushik), a podgy guy roughly 20 years her senior, she lives closeted, insulated from the outside world until circumstances force her outside Brick Lane, where she resides.