![]() ![]() ![]() But she's eventually befriended by outspoken neighbor Razia (Harvey Virdi), whose westernized ways shock the sheltered Nazneen. Even after Nazneen bears Chanu two daughters, rebellious Shahana (Naeema Begum) and compliant Bibi (Lana Rahman), she continues to dress like a proper village girl and keep to herself. Though the neighborhood is full of South Asian immigrants, the devout, deferential Nazneen – raised to submit to fate and her husband's authority – stays close to home and lives for letters from her high-spirited sister (Zafreen), who ran away from home to marry a man she loved. ![]() Nazneen's (Tannishta Chatterjee) new home is the grandly named Elgood Park Estate, a gloomy housing project in London's East End, and her new husband, Chanu Ahmed (Satish Kaushik), is a fat, pompous ass. But Nazneen's own life changes abruptly after her mother's suicide: Her widowed father arranges the 17-year-old's marriage to a much older man who lives in London. Nazneen and her sister, Hasina, are born into a tiny Muslim village community where the rhythms of life have remained unchanged for generations. Sarah Gavron's earnest adaptation of Monica Ali's sprawling novel about a naïve Bangladeshi girl whose arranged marriage takes her far from home is restrained and decorous to a fault. ![]()
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