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Ashley 'Bashy' Thomas stars in this gritty urban thriller about a young boxer trying to escape his father's violent past. Having been exposed as a boy to his father's brutally violent life, Clayton Murdoch (Thomas) has since chosen to bury the horrors he witnessed deep inside himself. With his father now in prison, Clayton, with the help of local trainer Gordon (Peter Mullan), takes up boxing to keep a lid on the aggression simmering within him. But he soon faces the fight of his life, when, after a chain of violent events engulfs his family, the full fury of his suppressed emotions are suddenly unleashed and he tries to find a way back to the life he has lost.
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in Lahore provides a mirror image of the political and social events happening in the outside world. The same actors are used for both inmates and rulers. This powerful film was made 40 years after partition by artist and director, Ken McMullen, adapted in collaboration with Tariq Ali from the short story, 'Toba Tek Singh', by acclaimed Urdu writer, Sadaat Hasan Manto.
Decent, hardworking and respectable, Sanjay Patel is a corner shop owner facing financial ruin when regularly forced to pay protection money to two local bullies. When one of the thugs, Ronnie Brown, turns up at the shop, brandishing a knife and demands 'his cash', Sanjay's actions leads to disastrous consequences. With the thug missing, the investigating officer immediately suspects the corner shop owner. But with very little evidence and no body, will Sanjay be declared innocent? Bhasker Patel and Nina Wadia star as Sanjay and Meena Patel, Tim Farraday plays thug Ronnie Brown, and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet's Tim Healy takes on the role of Inspector Duggan.
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