Sari & Trainers

Lovely. A meeting is fixed "on the church steps" between a young Indian girl and a Pakistani schoolfellow. The girl's brothers try to prevent the meeting, locking her up indoors and menacing her admirer. She puts to good use the family stock - they are in the sari fabric business - and a length of radiant gold silk provides her means of escape and her disguise - the sight of it billowing out above the mundane street scene makes the heart soar. In spite of the obstructions, they manage to keep the tryst on the steps of Christ Church Spitalfields. The title comes from the incongruity of her garb when meeting her date - gold sari + stylish trainers. It is a charming film on many fronts: the universality of young love, the Romeo and Juliet theme - young love across the barriers and, for all lovers of contemporary London, the shots of Spitalfields - for centuries the hub of multi-cultural London.