Bhaji on the beach

The opening scene to bhaji on the beach we start of with the tracking shot, showing a English butchers shop, which then moves on to a skin head which represents racism back in them items, we then come across an Asian groceries store which sells halal meat, this is a juxtaposition as there are two very different cultures living in the same place. The non diagetic English music starts the scene off, which then fades into an Indian instrumental music
We are then introduced to a main character Asha. A stressed Indian mother who’s starts having hallucinations shows she has a hard life and she has too much stress in the shot this is shown through an Ariel high angle camera shot. Unrealistically large objects showing a mixture of westernised
Confectionary and Bollywood film posters and videos overcrowd her as she hallucinates also represent the juxtapositions of western and Indian cultures mixing together in a racist society. The aerial shot makes her look a lot smaller than everything else around her denoting her insignificance in the first sense.
Inserts and cutaways showing Asha’s family putting pressure on her and her God shouting at her shows her religion is important to her as well as her family. She looks up at her God which is a low angle shot showing the Gods power and dominance over Asha as she looks up to her God with a high angle shot. This also connotes her inferiority to her God and how she looks up to her God for guidance as cut aways of her family flout around her as she is deep in her thoughts with worry.
A subtle racist remark connoting the ignorance of the newspaper man is added to the scene as he refers to the day being a “scorture” and how she should be used to the hot weather as he ignorantly presumes she’s from India; a hot country.