Roshan Seth credited as playing...
Papa
- Omar: You know who I saw today? Johnny. Johnny!
- Papa: The boy who came here dressed as a fascist with a quarter-inch of hair?
- Omar: He was a friend once, for years.
- Papa: There were times when he didn't deserve your admiration so much.
- Omar: Christ, I've known him since I was five!
- Papa: He went too far.
- Papa: You must be getting married. Why else would you be dressed like an undertaker on holiday?
- Omar: Going to Uncle's house, Papa. He's given me a car.
- Papa: What? The brakes must be faulty. Tell me one thing because there's something I don't understand, though it must be my fault. How is it that scrubbing cars can make a son of mine look so ecstatic?
- Omar: It gets me out of the house.
- Papa: Don't get too involved with that crook. You've got to study. We are under siege by the white man. For us education is power.
- [Omar shakes his head at his father]
- Papa: Don't let me down.
- Papa: [to Omar] Work now till you go back to college. And I'm fixing you up with a job with your uncle.
- Papa: [on the phone] Oh, one thing more, try to fix him up with a nice girl. I'm not sure his penis is in full working order.
- Papa: He's on dole... like everyone else in England. He sweeps the dust from one place to another... he squeezes shirts... and he heats soup. I mean, that hardly stretches him. His food stretches me.
- Papa: They hate us in England. And all you can do is to kiss their asses. Think of yourself as a little Britisher.