Charu Bala Chokshi

Charu Bala Chokshi

Charu Bala Chokshi is best recognized for her roles in Little Britain , My Lovely Laundrette , and A Fish Called Wanda .

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Completely Bad News
Title: Completely Bad News
Character: Cashier
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: Movie
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
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Pusher
Title: Pusher
Character: Grandmother
Released: October 15, 2010
Type: Movie
A desperate drug-pusher must avoid police, and find money to pay-off a huge debt.
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Title: Little Britain
Character: Meera
Released: September 16, 2003
Type: TV
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
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Destiny Desire Devotion
Title: Destiny Desire Devotion
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
This film adopts a mother’s perspective in examining her relationship with her gay son. The family members can be seen to represent the internal codes and regulative practices of a close-knit Asian community.
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Splitting Heirs
Title: Splitting Heirs
Character: Mrs. Patel
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.
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Title: Victoria Wood
Character: Rani Najitwar
Released: November 16, 1989
Type: TV
Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her very successful and award winning series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV. Wood appeared as "Victoria", a fictionalised version of herself, in all six episodes - in The Library it was said that she "worked in TV" and in Over To Pam characters appeared to recognise her celebrity and in the final episode, Staying In, she was taken to a party to perform as a comedienne and was expected to go through her stand-up 'routine'. Her character often broke the 'fourth wall' of TV and spoke directly to the camera, but not in every episode. Bored with the sketch format and with a yearning to recapture previous success as a playwright, Wood came up with six individual sitcoms as a compromise. She admitted to finding the writing difficult. Though Wood was written as the central character, other lead parts were written with specific actresses in mind, like Julie Walters and Una Stubbs. "I want people to like me and the people who play my friends, and not everybody else" she said. Screenonline says of the shows "Modest in ambition and scale but rich in wit and acuity, the six playlets showcase Wood's eye for human foibles and her distinctively eccentric characters.".
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Shalom Salaam
Title: Shalom Salaam
Character: Mrs Chowdri
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Two disparate families become intertwined when a Jewish man and a Muslim woman fall in love while attending college.
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Lucky Sunil
Title: Lucky Sunil
Character: Mrs. Singh
Released: April 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?
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Dead Lucky
Title: Dead Lucky
Character: Mrs Bhavnai
Released: January 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football pools, he decides to give half of it away to deserving people. But he neglects to include his friend Tim Sage, who filled in the coupon for him and really needs the money. Perhaps Martin doesn't acknowledge Tim because Martin is strongly sexually attracted to him. Tim's revenge upon Martin succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, setting in motion a chain of events leading to a tragic climax.
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Blood Red Roses
Title: Blood Red Roses
Character: Mrs Salim
Released: December 4, 1986
Type: Movie
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Title: My Beautiful Laundrette
Character: Bilquis
Released: November 16, 1985
Type: Movie
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
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Bad News Tour
Title: Bad News Tour
Character: Cashier
Released: January 24, 1983
Type: Movie
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Ayah
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Cashier
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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A Cotswold Death
Title: A Cotswold Death
Character: Servant
Released: January 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's best technicolor detective, except for the victim-the 20th-century lord of the manor, Sheik Ali Ben Hassim.
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The Garland
Title: The Garland
Character: Lawyer's wife
Released: March 10, 1981
Type: Movie
"These Indian films. They're done to a formula - songs, dance, routines and a lot of sentimental heavy breathing." When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realises that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.