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The Buddha of Suburbia is a British four-part television serial, directed by Roger Michell, originally broadcast on BBC Two in November 1993. Based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi, the series starred Naveen Andrews as the main character, Karim Amir.
The Buddha of Suburbia: With Naveen Andrews, Brenda Blethyn, Roshan Seth, David Bamber. Karim's mother is English and his father is Indian. Therefore Karim has some problems with life in British society which is becoming more and more racist and intolerant; he experiences this especially when he pursues acting.
- (528)
- 1993-11-03
- Comedy, Drama
- 222
Nov 3, 1993 · Languages English, Italian, Urdu. Studio BBC. Genres Comedy, Drama. Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours.
- (6)
- November 4, 1993
Comic drama following the life of 17-year-old Karim in 1970s south London suburbs. Episodes 3 and 4 2 / 2 Karim becomes a star actor and goes with Pyke’s play to New York.
Naveen Andrews plays the charismatic Karim, a half-Asian, half-English, wholly hedonistic chancer who is mortified when his civil servant father (Roshan Seth) plunges into an affair with the exotic Eva and begins passing himself off as a spiritual guru.
- (2)
- 4
- Naveen Andrews
- 1
The Buddha of Suburbia is a comic drama based on the novel by Hanif Kureishi. It follows 17-year-old Karim as he looks for trouble, action and sex in the...
- 2 min
- 48.7K
- BBC Archive
Episode 1. 1/4 We meet Karim, the son of an Indian father and an English mother, in 1970s London. All episodes of 60-Minute Versions.
