Anupam Kher Biography
Anupam Kher (born March 7, 1955) is an Indian actor, director and producer who works primarily in Hindi-language films. He has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. He has played a variety of characters including numerous critically acclaimed leading or parallel roles. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution in the field of Indian cinema and arts.
Kher is known internationally for Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004) and The Mistress of Spices (2005). In 2012, he co-starred in the Academy Award-winning Silver Linings Playbook.
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Family Dynamics and Cultural Identity in Conversation
Azmat Nanjiani:
(to Kumail) You should be stylish like your father. It's not very difficult. Just observe me.
Sharmeen Nanjiani: [[w:Malala|Malala]
Since when are you someone to stand up? You know who I think should stand up is ]. She has something to say, she has something to say!
Naveed Nanjiani: [[w:Julia Louis-Dreyfus|Julia Louis-Dreyfus]
Listen to yourself. You hardly sound Pakistani. "Cookies"? You sound like ]. You're such a burger.
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Engagement Proposal with a College Condition
Jess:
How am I going to tell em, Tony? I'll have to now or I'll end up a solicitor, bored out of my mind.
Tony:
Come with me. Mum, Uncle, Auntie... We've got something we want to tell you.
Mr. Bhamra:
Why is he holding her hand?
Tony:
We've been good friends for a long time now. We'd like to ask for your blessings. We'd like to get engaged. But there's one condition, Jesminder goes to college first, anywhere that she wants.
Mrs. Bhamra: [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow; [w:Portsmouth|Portsmouth]
Of course, putar! Well, we have relatives all the way in ], in ]...
Jess:
Mum, Dad... Tony's lying. We're not getting married. Tony only said that to help me, but I'm not lying any more. I played in the final today, and we won!
Mrs. Bhamra:
When?
Jess:
I wasn't going to go but Dad let me. And it was brilliant. I played the best ever! And I was happy because I wasn't sneaking off and lying to you! I didn't ask to be good at football. Guru Nanak must have blessed me. There was a scout from America there today, and he's offered me a place at a top university with a free scholarship and a chance to play football professionally, and I really want to go, and if I can't tell you what I want now, then I'll never be happy, whatever I do.
Mrs. Bhamra:
You let her leave her sister's wedding to go to a football match?!
Mr. Bhamra:
Maybe you could handle her long face, I could not. I didn't have the heart to stop her. And that's why she's ready to go all the way to America now!
Mrs. Bhamra:
She's dead, man!
Jess:
It's all right, Mum, just leave it.
Mr. Bhamra:
When those bloody English cricket players threw me out of their club like a dog... I never complained. On the contrary, I vowed that I will never play again. Who suffered? Me. But I don't want Jessie to suffer. I don't want her to make the same mistakes that her father made of accepting life, accepting situations. I want her to fight. And I want her to win... because I've seen her play. She is brilliant! I don't think anybody has the right of stopping her. Two daughters made happy in one day. What else can a father ask for?
Mrs. Bhamra:
At least I've taught her full Indian dinner. The rest is up to God.
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