Gurinder Chadha
Director
1960-01-10
Books by Gurinder Chadha
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Cambridge IGCSETM Physics Student's Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSETM)
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Cambridge International AS and A Level Physics Coursebook with CD-ROM
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OCR(A) A2 Physics Student Unit Guide: Unit G485 Fields, Particles and Frontiers of Physics
Student Unit Guide
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Quotes by Gurinder Chadha
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I went to L.A., and I was on two different studio movies at Fox and Sony, but they were never made in the end. When the second one wasn't happening, I ended up doing an episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the BBC, and went on a roots trip from England to Kenya, India, and pre-partition India in Pakistan, where my family originally came from.
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My films do have a big following among young girls, and I want to instill confidence in them, a sense of self-appreciation - to make them feel they can be spirited and say what they feel.
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I remember a picture on the front page of the 'Sun' during the Brixton riots: a rasta guy with a petrol bomb, and a headline saying something like: 'The Future of Britain.' And I thought: 'Wow! Look at the power of that image,' and I wanted to get behind the camera to make these people three-dimensional.
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I've been wanting for a long time to create a show which allowed me to show the British Asian community in a truly three-dimensional way, exploring the relationships between generations and what it means to be British and Asian as values become fluid.
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For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world.
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