Leaving India in the 60s to work for the NHS, Yash Pal Suri bought two Super 8 cameras and reel-to-reel recorders. He kept one set of equipment, and left the other with his family. What was intended as a means of contact became a tool for educating, remembering and no small amount of emotional blackmail as the Suris pleaded for their Prodigal Son to return.The material forms the basis of his daughter Sandhya’s first full-length documentary. A study of a family divided and a reminder of Britain’s uneasy passage into multiculturalism, it’s the most interesting home video you’ll ever see.
