Brick Lane

In Brick Lane, Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee) jeopardizes her unhappy marriage when she falls for Karim ([Christopher Simpson]), a young radical who becomes a religious fundamentalist after the 9/11 attacks. Unlike The Home and the World, though, the tone here is mildly selfrighteous, with the idyllic spiritual bond between Nazneen and her sister back home treated with the candied simplicity of The Color Purple. Chatterjee gives a warm, supple performance despite the quaint direction by [Sarah Gavron]. [Satish Kaushik] isn't so fortunate.