Bhaji on the Beach

Throughout the opening scenes, various conventions are used to create the film to portray a drama/ social realism genre. The conventions are used in a specific way to portray certain things which represent the type of film this is. An example of this is at the beginning there is a tracking shot. This reveals and juxta-poses an English butcher shop with a Asian shop. It also shows racist symbols which are drawn on walls. For the audience, this represents the time period the film was set in and the sort of social conflicts going on e.g. racism. Subtle racism is also portrayed through the use of dialogue that the delivery man gives. Also through the use of what he was delivering, this was newspapers. The headline had subtle racism in targeting the ethnic group whom the protagonists in the film are.
The audience knows more about the genre through them reasons but furthermore through the mis en scene. For example the mother is wearing typical Asian clothes. They also own a corner shop which was associated with them ethnic groups during that time period. The dialogue from the father is Asian however the son’s is English. This juxta-poses the two ethnic groups and in some sense portrays there family as being of both an English and Asian background.
The director of the film is called Gurinder Chadha and the film was released during a specific time period which represented how families of this ethnic group during this time period, had different lifestyles and values then other people.