A Kind of English

9/18/2026

**A Kind Of English** **Director Ruhul Amin** **A Channel 4 corporation production.** **A KIND OF BENGALI IN ENGLISH** **A SPIRITUAL HOMAGE TO INGMAR BERGMAN BY RUHUL AMIN** **Review By: Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** It is a pleasure to see this soulful rendering of the plight of a Bengali family in the ghetto of London's East End through the eyes of their nine-year-old son, who is witnessing the helplessness of his parents in the face of financial ruin and unemployment due to racial discrimination in the late '80s. The focus is the child and his silent psychological trauma as he sees his mother \[Lalita Ahmed\] struggling to make ends meet, while his unemployed father takes his frustration out on her and the rest of the family, which comprises his uncle Tar