Amid the tumultuous political landscape of the 1970s, a cultural change was afoot. While far-right hate groups like The National Front marched in the streets, British music and cinema were finally starting to take notice of the country’s increasingly diverse population. One of the most promising results of this was the 1974 film A Private Enterprise, the first British movie to centre around a South Asian cast.
Source: ‘A Private Enterprise’: the first British-Asian movie ever made