在这部郊區佛爺喜剧/剧情片中,Karim, a half-Emglish teenager from the 1970s London suburbs is mortified when his civil servant father plunges into an affair with the exotic Eva and begins passing himself off as a spiritual guru. But, swept along into a different world, Karim' eyes are opened to a whole new life of drugs, experimental theatre, punk rock, fancy parties and all the sex a young man could desire.
Much of Karim's story is about a personal journey to establish his identity as he seeks to escape his suburban origins. He negotiaes adolescence, dysfunctional families, relationships and his own sexuality, all set to a 1970s backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race.The BFTA winning 'The Buddah of Suburbia' is a hilarious, scandalous and provocative coming-of-age drama, which provoked controversy and moral furore when first screened on British TV in 1993.
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...