i have high expectation follow my beautiful laundrette and bend it like beckham and ( less so ) east be east . the history of british asian fit into their adopt home have have many good run on the big screen and as well a a number of excellent tv and radio series ( goodness gracious me and etc ) . this one fall flat . inspite of a good start it rapidly go down hill . ultimately this be a horribly typical bbc effort and complete with strong regional accent and whacky over act character and a those be the day soundtrack and and lot of issue in an attempt to be worthy . i find myself cringe at many point during this film . the writing be predictable . every possible cliche be drag out and aired . in fact and i have trouble thinking of any cross cultural or cross generational device that could have be use that weren not . the character be thin and cliched represent the eccentric non conformist minister while the well meaning but ultimately racist old woman while the over weight and overbear aunt while the pushy indian parent while the work class neighbour while the wise profound grandmother while the motorbike rid thug . the script be weak and with every chance to shock the audience with overt racist dialogue from the two dimentional racist white character take . and why it have to be set in the 70 ( apart from need an excuse for a 70 soundtrack ) be a mystery . possibly it make unbelievable character slightly more believable to people bear after 1979. i do not know . even these thing aside and good acting could have carry this into respectable obscurity . instead and the usual bbc comedy suspect be wheel out to ham it up . bend it like beckham have far well comic acting ( and serious acting and in fact ) than this and with a virtually unknown cast . in summary and a lazy cliched script and over acted and in a dull predictable story . give it a miss .