It's a Wonderful Afterlife Page #2

Synopsis: Southall Police are baffled by four successive homicides of East Indians, and request Detective Raj Murthy to mingle with the local community and find out who is behind the murders. Raj does so and meets with his childhood girlfriend, Roopi Sethi, who lives with her widowed mother and brother, Jazz. Both continue to meet and an unsuspecting Raj will be taken by surprise when his superiors consider Roopi as a suspect in these homicides as she knew all the deceased victims. Before they could take any further steps, a fifth homicide occurs - that of Mrs. Goldstein. Again this victim is also known to Roopi, but in order to arrest her, they must find evidence and also a motive.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Director(s): Gurinder Chadha
Production: UTV Communications
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
PG-13
Year:
2010
100 min
Website
83 Views


I still wake up in a state, too.

Make you a hot cup of milk, hm?

It's all right.

THUNDERCLAP:

BIRDSONG:

SIGHS:

SCREAMS:

Why did you do it?

What were you thinking?

What is wrong with you?

MUFFLED:

Morning, Mum.

Still looking a little pale.

Pale? She should see us.

How you feeling?

I'm OK.

I better get to work.

Sure you're OK?

Why worry about her?

We're the ones who are dead.

The girl works too hard,

that's why she's let her body go.

Fat mother, fat daughter.

What's wrong, Mum?

You're a million miles away.

I'm sorry, beta.

You please go to work.

Take some stuffed parantas

for lunch.

What? She already has

a bottom like a buffalo.

Call me if you need anything.

I'm picking up Linda at the airport

after work.

That's why I did it.

What?

You said my daughter's too fat

for you.

And you said she's too ugly

for your cousin's sister's son.

And you?

You said she's not good enough

for your nephew Tej.

So you broke her engagement, made

some mischief and broke her heart.

You all rejected her

without even knowing her.

You can't be nice to her

even in death.

She is all I can ask for

in a daughter.

She's loving, dutiful, considerate.

And still no-one will have her.

She deserves to have a good husband

and a good family.

And you all got what you deserve.

Deserve this? For trying to help

you find a match for moto-joto?

You killed us for telling the truth.

Surely an over-reaction, no?

But we rejected so many girls.

Better to break an engagement

than have a bad match for ever.

MUFFLED:

This isn't real.

This can't be happening.

It's real to us.

POSTMAN:
Morning.

Oi, post wallah, look.

Mr Postman, look at us.

DOG BARKS:

Milo!

What's wrong? You look bothered.

Are your son and my Ari

raising your blood pressure?

Is there something different

about me today?

Did you dye your hair?

Where do Jewish people go

after they die?

Willesden.

Huh?

The Jewish cemetery.

It's lovely, all green and peaceful.

Milo!

No, I mean your spirit. Your soul.

Oh, that. Nothing.

When you're dead you're dead.

That's sad.

At least we have reincarnation.

You see, we have reincarnation.

Everybody is reborn.

What, everyone?

If you're good in this life,

you come back again next time

as something good,

like a holy person.

But if you're bad then you come back

as something bad, like a cockroach.

So if we're dead

why are we still here?

Why haven't we been reincarnated?

I have no idea.

Maybe you all did very bad things

in your life

so you're off the scale.

But what about the bad you've done?

What's going to happen to you?

You know I'm a vegetarian. Why

stab me with chicken tikka kebab?

Why not panir?

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Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha, (born 10 January 1960) is an English film director of Kenyan Asian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in England. This common theme among her work showcases the trials of Indian women living in England and how they must reconcile their converging traditional and modern cultures. Although many of her films seem like simple quirky comedies about Indian women, they actually address many social and emotional issues, especially ones faced by immigrants caught between two worlds. Much of her work also consists of adaptations from book to film, but with a different flare. She is best known for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004), Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), and the comedy film It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010). Her latest feature is the partition drama Viceroy's House (2017). more…

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