The Buddha of Suburbia
TV ShowTitle | The Buddha of Suburbia |
User score | 6.2 |
Release date | Nov 3, 1993 |
Release date of last episode | Nov 24, 1993 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama |
Director | Hanif Kureishi |
Production country | GB |
Production companies | BBC |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 4 |
Run time | 60 min. |
Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.