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Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses and they do whatever they need to make money, even if the activities are illegal. As such, Nasser and his immediate family live more than a comfortable lifestyle, and he flaunts his riches whenever he can. Meanwhile, his brother, alcoholic Ali, once a famous journalist in Pakistan, lives in a seedy flat with his son, Omar. Alis life in London is not as lucrative in part because of his left leaning politics, which does not mesh with the ideals of Thatcherism. To help his brother, Nasser gives Omar a job doing menial labor. But Omar, with bigger plans, talks Nasser into letting him manage Nassers run down laundrette. Omar seizes what he sees as an opportunity to make the laundrette a success, and employs an old friend, Johnny - who has been most recently running around with a gang of white punks - to help him. Johnny and Omar have a special relationship, but one that has gone through its ups and downs, the downs fostered by anti-immigration sentiments of white England. Omar and Johnny each have to evaluate if their ideals of success are worth it at all cost.
An Immigrant from Karachi, Pakistan, Nasser Hussein lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in London, England, along with his wife Bilquis and three daughters, one of whose name is Tania. He owns and operates two businesses with his friend Salim; namely a garage, and Churchills Laundrette. When his widower and alcoholic brother asks him to hire his son, Omar, Nasser meets with him and initially asks him to wash cars. Subsequently he takes him to the laundrette and asks him to mop its floors, but decides to let Omar manage it, and hopes to wed him with Tania. Nasser does not realize that soon the laundrette will have a new look and name Powders, and the lives of the Husseins will also never be the same again.
Saeed Jaffrey
Uncle Nasser
Roshan Seth
Papa Hussein
Daniel Day-Lewis
Johnny
Richard Graham
Genghis
Winston Graham
Jamaican One
Dudley Thomas
Jamaican Two
Derrick Branche
Salim
Garry Cooper
Squatter
Gordon Warnecke
Omar
Shirley Anne Field
Rachel
Charu Bala Chokshi
Bilquis
Souad Faress
Cherry
Rita Wolf
Tania
Persis Maravala
Nasser's Elder Daughter
Nisha Kapur
Nasser's Younger Daughter
Neil Cunningham
Englishman
Walter Donohue
Dick O'Donnell
Gurdial Sira
Zaki
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