Anita and Me (film) Anita and Me (film) Anita and Me is a British comedy-drama film released in 2002 based on the book of the same name by Meera Syal. It was released during a period of popularity for British Asian films, alongside such as "East Is East" and "Bend It Like Beckham". Meena Kumar, a 12-year-old Sikh girl, lives with her family in the predominantly white, working-class, fictional mining village of Tollington in the Black Country in 1972. Meena meets Anita, a white, 14-year-old girl whom Meena comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in as her Indian
A Girl Called Jules A Girl Called Jules A Girl Called Jules () is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Tonino Valerii. After directing three spaghetti western films, director Tonino Valerii was worried about being typecast as a director of only spaghetti westerns. He began exploring other genres and was initially interested in adapting Livia De Stefani's novel "Black Grapes". The original story of "Black Grapes" involved gangsters, a topic that became popular in Italy after the release of Damiano Damiani's "The Day of the Owl". Valerii was introduced to producer Francesco Mazzei by Riz Ortolani. When approaching him for "Black Grapes", Mazzei