2: British-Asian film-maker GURINDER CHADA (Gur-IN-der CHA-da) is making her feature-film debut with the new comedy-drama, "Baji (BAH-gee) on the Beach," a movie in the British social realist tradition, about three Asian women on a day trip to a working class resort in England. CHADA is of Indian descent; she was born in Kenya, but has lived in Britian most of her life. She formed her own independent production company, Umbi Films, in 1990 which produced three documentaries for television. "Baji on the Beach," has recently made the round of film festivals
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