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| name = Sixth Happiness<br />
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| director = [[Waris Hussein]]<br />
| producer = Tatiana Kennedy<br />
| writer = [[Firdaus Kanga]]<br />
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| based_on = [[Trying to Grow]]<br />
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| starring = Firdaus Kanga<br>[[Souad Faress]]<br>Khodus Wadia<br>[[Nina Wadia]]<br>[[Ace Bhatti|Ahsen Bhatti]]<br />
| music = Dominique Le Gendre<br />
| cinematography = James Welland<br />
| editing = Laurence Méry-Clark<br />
| studio = [[Arts Council of England]]<br>[[BBC Films]]<br>[[British Film Institute|British Film Institute (BFI)]]<br>Kennedy Mellor<br />
| distributor = [[Regent Releasing]]<br>Dreamfactory<br>[[Mongrel Media]]<br>[[here! Films]]<br />
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| runtime = 97 minutes<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
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'''''Sixth Happiness''''' is a 1997 British [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[India]]n director [[Waris Hussein]]. It is based on the 1991 autobiography of [[Firdaus Kanga]] entitled ''[[Trying to Grow]]''. Kanga played himself in this film about [[United Kingdom|Britain]], [[India]], [[Race (classification of humans)|race]] and [[sex]].<br />
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Sixth Happiness also features performances from [[Souad Faress]], [[Nina Wadia]], [[Indira Varma]], and [[Meera Syal]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Sixth Happiness is about Brit, a boy born with brittle bones who never grows taller than four feet, and his sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him. It is also about the [[Parsi people|Parsi]] or Parsees – descendants of the [[Sasanian Empire|Persian empire]] who were driven out of Persia by an [[Islam]]ic invasion more than a thousand years ago and settled in western India. Parsees had a close relationship with the British during the years of the [[British Raj|Raj]]. Brit is named by his mother, both after his brittle bones, and in tribute to his mother's love of Britain.<br />
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Brit's family is non-stereotypical: his parents are ardent [[Anglophile]]s with fond memories of the Raj and [[World War II]]. Brit is bright, spiky, opinionated and selfish with a razor-sharp wit, never a [[martyr]] or victim. He prefers the [[Kama Sutra]] to [[Shakespeare]] and does not allow [[gender]] or disability to come in the way of his desire for sex and love.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
*[[Firdaus Kanga]] as Brit Kotwal<br />
*[[Souad Faress]] as Sera Kotwal<br />
*Khodus Wadia as Sam Kotwal<br />
*[[Nina Wadia]] as Dolly Kotwal<br />
*[[Ace Bhatti|Ahsen Bhatti]] as Cyrus<br />
*Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal as Jeroo<br />
*[[Nisha K. Nayar]] as Tina<br />
*[[Indira Varma]] as Amy<br />
*[[Pratima Kazmi]] as Brothel Madam<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0127289|title=Sixth Happiness}}<br />
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/22/movies/film-review-growing-up-with-a-defect-and-charm-and-mischief.html ''New York Times'' review]<br />
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