Yasmin (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, sex and soft drugs use
- Run time: 1 hour 21 mins
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 28th October 2004
- Starring: Archie Panjabi, Renu Setna, Steve Jackson
- Directed by: Kenny Glenaan
Plot Synopsis
She is not devout. With her midlands accent, her fondness for a pint, her hair-trigger temper. "I haven't been to a mosque in five years," she maintains. "I'm about as much a Muslim as you are." In fact, Yasmin is more overtly racist than most of her white friends and co-workers, capable of angrily dismissing her new husband (an arranged marriage, to facilitate his citizenship) as a "useless bloody Paki." But the attack on the World Trade Centre alters her world as much as that of any true believer. At first it takes minor, comparatively trifling forms: the casual cruelty of her workmates, for example, pasting a "Yas loves Osama" note on her locker the day after the attack. But soon the police are entering and searching Islamic households at gunpoint. Before long they come for her, too - storming the house to seize her new husband.
“An important picture dramatising how Muslim communities in Britain have been tormented in the wake of 9/11… Yasmin, one hopes, will… encourage non-Muslims to understand what some of our Asian communities are enduring today.” Guardian