Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
Om Puri
Angeline Ball
Ace Bhatti
Bhasker Patel
Pavan Malhotra
Pravesh Kumar
Badi Uzzaman
Harmage Singh Kalirai
Kumall Grewal
Marc Anwar
Pal Aron
Shiv Grewal
Lesley Clare O'Neill
Kulvinder Ghir
Riz Abbasi
Freddie Fletcher
June Broughton
William Maxwell
Huggy Leaver
Aftab Sachak
John Lambert
Tich Saund
Judy Monahan
Peter Silverleaf
Maria Redmond
Mellan Mitchell
Shereen Wheeks
Sian Holland
Luke Johnson
Shadin Khosru
Shekhar Bassi
Balraj Singh Somal
Steven Nijjar
Sanjit Sil
Rez Kempton
Asheer Kaleem
Vimal Stephens
Peter Jacques