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Yo I wanna big up my pops, from Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad for introducing this movie to me. Thanks to him keeing a copy I was able to bring this piece of history forth.

BIM (1974)
Filmed on Location: Trinidad & Tobago
Script Written by: Raoul Pantin

Starring

Ralph R. Maharaj (as Bheem Singh)

Regarded as a classic of Caribbean Cinema

Synopsis:

Released just after the country had survived Black Power Demonstrations.
Highlights the tensions between the African and Indian communities.
Thirty years later it seems just as relevant as it did in 1974.

Pantin wrote a fictional story about a young Indian boy who, having never
left the sugar estates of central Trinidad, has to come to terms with an
African-dominated Port of Spain in the days before independence. Political
rivalry and violence within the Indian community form part of the backdrop.
The script may well have been influenced by the career of Bhadese S. Maraj,
who reputedly wore a gun at all times and became a leading opposition politician.
Trinidad’s Indian community only represented 35 per cent
of the population in 1946, but it was soon to become a powerful political
force under Maraj’s leadership, leading to disputes between the African-dominated
People’s National Movement and the Indian-dominated Democratic Labour Party.
Bim was released as these tensions were being inherited by a new generation,
with unrest in the sugar industry and the emergence of a new opposition
leader, Basdeo Panday.