The Buddha of Suburbia

completed Secondary GL

The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)

aka Будда из пригорода

4 ep GB BBC Two 60 min/ep ComedyDrama

Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.

🏳️‍🌈 This acclaimed BBC miniseries features a highly progressive, canon secondary sapphic arc. The main character Karim's mother's friend, Jamila (Sheiba Chhachhi), rebels against traditional family expectations and explicitly enters a committed, loving lesbian partnership and communal living arrangement with another woman.

Episodios

Ep 1 · Part 1 3 Nov 1993

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In 1970s London we meet Karim, the son of an India father and an English mother.

Ep 2 · Part 2 10 Nov 1993

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Jamila’s betrothed, Changez, arrives from Bombay but he mainly wants to see Baker Street.

Ep 3 · Part 3 17 Nov 1993

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Eva leaves suburbia for the city. Karim becomes an actor and falls in love with Eleanor.

Ep 4 · Part 4 24 Nov 1993

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Karim becomes a star and goes with Pyke’s play to New York.

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