The Buddha of Suburbia

• 1993
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• Ended
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• 18

• Comedy
• Drama

★ 5.9 TMDB Rating · 16 votes

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.

Created by

Hanif Kureishi

Seasons

1

Episodes

4

Episode length

~1h

First aired

Nov 3, 1993

Networks

BBC Two

Original language

English

Origin

United Kingdom