{"id":8855,"date":"2010-07-16T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/07\/16\/makers-of-cash-and-curry-film-defend-racist-song\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:25:59","slug":"makers-of-cash-and-curry-film-defend-racist-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/16\/makers-of-cash-and-curry-film-defend-racist-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Makers of Cash and Curry film defend \u2018racist\u2019 song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIt is satire and an attack on the far right!\u201d <\/h3>\n
\"\"THE makers of a new British feature film Cash and Curry are standing by their decision to include a segment featuring the words \u201cKill the Paki\u201d being sung by skinheads in a Bollywood style musical sequence.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Cash and Curry, which will be released on DVD in the UK and Ireland on 19 July, features a far-right group called the UK Front which want \u201ctheir\u201d country to be free of Blacks and Asians. Their battle-cry is \u201cThere ain\u2019t no Black in the Union Jack!\u201d<\/div>\n

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The scene that has caused outcry begins with the UK Front leader Tarquin, played by Jamie Bannerman, taunting an Asian boy who is bound and gagged and at the mercy of the skinheads. <\/div>\n

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Tarquin leers at the boy and chants the rhyme: \u201cIf it\u2019s a Hindu it don\u2019t eat beef, If it\u2019s a Muslim it don\u2019t eat pork, If it ain\u2019t white, It ain\u2019t f**king right!\u201d The scene than turns into a Bollywood style song and dance routine with the skinheads singing \u201cKill the Paki, Paki, Paki!\u201d<\/div>\n

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While the film\u2019s director, Sarjit Bains is pleased that Cash and Curry, hailed as one of the most funny and darkly atmospheric British-Asian films of recent times, is finally being released on DVD, he is saddened that the film has been branded racist after a misguided report was posted on a popular social networking site stating that \u201creal-life members of the BNP and English Defence League acted as members of a racist skinhead gang in the film\u201d.<\/div>\n

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Sarjit Bains said: “The scene is important and has been included for a reason. It was our way of sticking two fingers up at the far right in the UK. However, the skinheads in the film are called the UK Front and this group does not exist in real-life. <\/div>\n

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\u201cIn fact when people see that the racist song is part of a Bollywood style dance routine they will see that the film\u00a0shows the far right as a bunch of idiots with no real message other than hate itself. The British-Asian community should not take offence, it is only groups like the BNP who will be offended by this film and for me that is a good thing.”<\/div>\n

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\"\"The scene did not put off British Asian acting stalwarts Ameet Chana (Bend It Like Beckham), Pooja Shah (Eastenders), Ronny Jhutti (Eastenders) who have leading parts in the film. <\/div>\n

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Cameos are provided by Tommy Sandhu (BBC Asian Network), Sofia Hayat (finalist of Channel 4\u2019s Bollywood Star) and tabloid favourite Faria Alam.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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The films co-producer is writer-actor Manish Patel who also has a starring role as drug lord ‘Gabbar Patel’. \u201cThe scene is completely tongue in cheek. It is a satire and an attack on the far right not on the British Asian community or the British Pakistani community in particular,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n

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Without giving the plot away, the UK Front are dealt with in an effective manner that sends a clear message to the far right. British Asians are an integral fabric of British mainstream life. <\/div>\n

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\u201cOur people, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh have died for this country and we\u2019re not leaving. In fact, the sequence is no different from the \u2018Throw the Jew Down the Well\u2019 song in Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s Borat film,\u201d Manish added. <\/div>\n

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\u201cI remember in the seventies when we were all \u2018Pakis\u2019 regardless of whether we were from India or Pakistan. In fact, in the near past if you were Chinese you would have been a \u2018Paki\u2019 as far as the far right was concerned.\u201d he added.<\/div>\n

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Cash and Curry will be released on DVD in the UK and Ireland on 19 July 2010. It will be available to buy online from Amazon and Play.com on 19 July 2010 and in-store from HMV and Asda from 25 July 2010.<\/em><\/div>\n

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