Critical Investigation Task #5

How are British Asian ethnic minorities represented in contemporary media texts such as ‘Murdered By My Father’?

Introduction (210 words)

British Asian ethnic minorities have been represented in a typical way in contemporary media texts in certain movies like 'Murdered by My Father'. This was shown a lot throughout Vinay Patel's main protagonist Shahzad, who was portrayed by Adeel Akhtar. In the film, Shahzad was shown as this strict character who was also shown to be egotistical and wanted to do everything that was best for himself; he raised a daughter and son all on his own. The way which the character was presented was shown as a 'typical' stereotype for Asian fathers on how they are always strict with their children. Furthermore, this text also shows other types of stereotypes such as racism. We also see this in other successful British historical texts such as Bend it Like Beckham, Goodness Gracious Me and East is East, despite them all being slightly funny (comedy genre). All them show different but similar representations within them. For example, Bend it Like Beckham is more modern based but with the other texts, it's more typical and how life was first like with the British Asian minorities. This essay will talk about how life was portrayed by British Asian ethical minorities within modern text. 

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• Don't talk a lot about the movie (Just introduce it) - Talking too much about the story itself.
• Address the argument
• Link theories to it but don't explain it - in depth