List of the best Meera Syal movies: All in Good Time(2012), Desert Flower(2009), Nativity Rocks!(2018), Amar, Akbar & Tony(2015), Anita & Me(2002), A Little Princess(1986) ... ...
Comedy
UK
2012
93 Minutes
Lopa
Amara Karan Reece Ritchie Meera Syal Harish Patel Arsher Ali Neet Mohan Shelley King Amith Rahman
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For Atul Dutt and his young bride Vina married life is proving far from straightforward, when it comes to their 'first night'. Atul is so woefully inhibited by the proximity of his parents,... See full summary »
Biography, Drama
UK|Germany|Austria|France
2009
124 Minutes
Pushpa Patel
Liya Kebede Sally Hawkins Timothy Spall Juliet Stevenson Craig Parkinson Anthony Mackie Meera Syal Soraya Omar-Scego
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Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at 13 when sold as 4th wife. She's maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then McDonald's, where she's discovered and becomes int'l top model. 1997, she speaks up against female genital mutilation.
Musical, Comedy, Other
UK
2018
100 Minutes
Simon Lipkin Celia Imrie Craig Revel Horwood Helen George Ruth Jones Anna Chancellor Meera Syal Hugh Dennis
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The staff and students from St Bernadette's Primary School in Coventry audition for a place in a rock musical competition.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
2015
96 Minutes
Honey
Rez Kempton Sam Vincenti Martin Delaney Karen David Laura Aikman Goldy Notay Meera Syal Nina Wadia
Three childhood friends face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives.
Comedy
UK
2002
93 Minutes
Writer
Chandeep Uppal Anna Brewster Sanjeev Bhaskar Ayesha Dharker Kathy Burke Lynn Redgrave Omid Djalili Meera Syal Alex Freeborn Max Beesley Zohra Segal
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Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence ... See full summary »
Drama
1986
163 Minutes
Maureen Lipman Amelia Shankley Nigel Havers David Yelland Miriam Margolyes Annette Badland John Grillo André Maranne Marianne Borgo Natalie Abbott Johanna Hargreaves
A man (Nigel Havers) tries to locate his friend's daughter (Amelia Shankley), now a penniless orphan treated poorly by her headmistress (Maureen Lipman) in Victorian London.