Synopsis

At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen’s life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance.

Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life

Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit

Cast

Nazneen - Tannishtha Chatterjee
Chanu - Satish Kaushik
Karim - Christopher Simpson
Shahana - Naeema Begum
Bibi - Lana Rahman
Razia - Harvey Virdi
Mrs Islam - Lalita Ahmed
Hasina - Zafreen

Crew

Director - Sarah Gavron
Producer - Alison Owen & Christopher Collins
Screenplay - Ab Morgan & Laura Jones

Reviews

I will never forget the sad, Willy loman-esque quality of Mr. Kaushik's superb performance as the husband who has failed in every aspect of his life. The film, as I revealed last week, will be this year's Royal Film Performance.
Baz bamigboye – Daily Mail London

Chanu emerges as the most unexpectedly interesting character; his pomposity and deafness to how silly he sounds to his wife and daughters hides an underlying wisdom that emerges later. Kaushik's performance draws attention...
Robert Koehler - Variety.com

Brick Lane – adds a shrewd, poignant film to a growing genre of immigrant stories. Satish Kasuhik is a well known comic actor and film director in India, is wonderfully cast as her husband, chanu, a character of Dickensian richness.
Kirk Honeycut – Hollywood Reporter

Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane , a strong favourite this year, is a film in which the two lead players, Tannishtha Chaterjee and Satish Kaushik, are winning plaudits for their portrayals. Satish Kasuhik in his difficult and unflattering role manages to transmit his failing while retaining an essential goodness and generosity.
Uma Da Cunha – Mumbai Mirror

Satish Kaushik is outstanding as the unattractive husband in an arranged marriage.
Susan Walker - Star.com Toronto

Satish kaushik who plays the husband that so irritated n infuriated the audience... yet emerging in the end as a sympathetic figure, so much so that we wish him well.
MCGARMOTT Cinematic Concern – Hollywood CA

Amongst all actors, Kaushik delivers a very impressive performance.
Gilbert Seah – Cinema Eye