"My Beautiful Laundrette"

Hanif Kureishi's screenplay is a coming of age portrayal of British life in the 1980s, from the point of view of a first generation Pakistani. Omar's story is a representation of the cultural shift away from traditional values. This cultural divide is compounded by sexual, ethnic and class differences as revealed through the character of Omar, whose own identity lacks consistent identification.
In the film, Omar is referred to as an "in between" by his uncle's Pakistani wife. He is ethnically from Pakistan, but born in Britain, therefore having no direct personal link to Pakistani culture other than what is transmitted to him by his father. Much like Karim in Kureishi's Buddha of Suburbia, Omar is not able to identify with either Pakistani or British culture, putting him at a constant crux of identification.
As part of being in between cultures, Omar embodies the anti-traditional shift happening in mainstream culture, specifically in dealing with......

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Title: My Beautiful Laundrette
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