Akram Khan's film to explore identity, family and his curry house links

Monday 25th March 2019 12:40 EDT
 
 

At its peak, there were 12,000 curry houses in Britain, the vast majority run by Bangladeshi immigrants. Born in Wimbledon, where his father ran an Indian restaurant, renowned choreographer and contemporary dancer Akram Khan was expected to inherit the family business. But Akram had other ideas. 

The Channel 4 film called The Curry House Kid, explores identity, art, family and why when we say we’re going for an Indian we probably mean a Bangladeshi.

It sees Akram Khan returning to curry houses of his childhood, meeting the chefs who created this culinary institution in the face of hostility- often violent racism. He came face to face with his own past, his family, history and the reasons he became a dancer. All of this is woven into a poetic new piece of dance that tells a universal story- the immigrant experience in Britain.


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