by Rina Kaur
Ayesha Dharker is the new Asian sensation the people at ITV and Coronation Street are hoping will save the day. Only last month, Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights blasted the soap for its lack of diversity amongst its Black and Asian characters. The report the commission released concluded [...][...more]
Big Boss is the Indian version of Big Brother, it is now in its second series with the opening night taking in a record number of viewers (over four million). As one would suspect, every candidate in the Indian house seemed to have aspirations in Bollywood in one form or another - and then [...][...more]
A few weeks back, I put forward the argument on why I thought the Masood’s from Eastenders were one of the few Asian TV families to get a realistic storyline and a fair amount of airtime. However, a report published at the end of last week seems to contradict my opinion altogether. The study, conducted by [...][...more]
As a fairly open-minded Asian girl (at least I’d like to think so), I have friends across the entire spectrum of the whole clothes debacle, from those who wear full burka, to others who are self-confessed party dress/kitten heel/boob tube kinda girls (love them all, though I do). I fall somewhere in the middle. With [...][...more]
Earlier this month, Coldplay was falsely accused of doing it, Bollywood is famous for doing it and now our very own desi doctor/TV celebrity Raj Persaud has been caught red handed having his own love affair with copyright. Dr. Raj Persaud, best known for his role as a psychiatric expert on ITV’s This Morning and more [...][...more]
by Amna Ahmed
If you are starved to see Salman in his element; craving to swoon over Shahrukh and his infectious persona (and a six-pack); longing to see Kajol’s seductive smile and yearning to stare at Hrithik as he woos you; you don’t have to wait for their next movie to hit the big screen. Waiting around for the next [...][...more]
by Amna Ahmed
The Baadshah of Bollywood, having clearly conquered the silver screen, is now increasing his foot hold on the smaller screens in an attempt to reign supreme there to. The superstar started off his acting career on a television serial called Fauji back in 1988, and as we are all aware, he has come a tremendous way [...][...more]
by Aliya Razaaq
A daughter caught between a mix of Eastern and Western values; a mother on the prowl, preoccupied with reputation; a bunch of stiff upper lipped relatives; tales of forced marriage and torture. This is the Masood family, the latest Asian experiment to be performed on hit BBC soap Eastenders. Eastenders has long had a reputation of [...][...more]
Eastenders has finally come up trumps by depicting a British Asian family we can believe in. It only took two decades, and a lot of poor storylines in-between, but Enders’ latest family offering, the Masood’s, are probably the nearest representation of a British Muslim family that we are going to get. Despite having relatively low-key roles, [...][...more]
by Ikram Ali
How many famous British South Asians (Desi’s) can you name? That’s right, not many. Other than a few Big Brother rejects, those people from the Kumars at 42 and the token Asian family in Eastenders – who else is out there? Yes a few are blazing a trail, like Jay Sean, Tre Azam, Konnie Huq, [...][...more]
Adrian Chiles, the presenter of The Apprentice - You’re Fired once said, ‘It happens every year… another brummie comes on, and I think they’ll make it to the end, but they never do.’ The same could be said for the Desi representatives on the high brow reality show. Series one introduced the unstoppable (and unsilence-able) Saira [...][...more]
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