UK Film Council saves film version of 'Rafta Rafta'
23 August 2010

The UK Film Council (UKFC) has inject £250,000 into the film version of the stage play 'Rafta Rafta', based on Bill Naughton's play, which was a sell-out at the National Theatre in London in 2007. The cash injection from the Film Council has saved the project from collapse after a 10% funding shortfall in its overall £4,350,000 budget and will allow it to retains its lead stars Meera Syal and Bollywood's Harish Patel. Other UKFC-funded films like 'East is East' have turned a great profit, it was made for £1,900,000 and grossed £14,300,000 worldwide!

Rafta Rafta is a hugely warm-hearted, comic tale of close-knit Indian family
life in England by the author of East is East, Ayub Khan-Din. Set in the Guajarati community in Bolton, it highlights the agonies of a young newly-married working-class British-Asian couple forced to live with their in-laws. Rafta Rafta is currently filming at Three Mills studios in east London and in Southall.