• Director(s)

    Haider Zafar

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    12/02/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Sally Ann, Aziz Kemal, Aakash Shukal

Film

Before Nikkah

infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, discrimination

Meeting reluctantly in advance of a possible arranged marriage, a Muslim couple spend a day talking and walking around London in this gently freewheeling British romantic comedy drama.…

Meeting reluctantly in advance of a possible arranged marriage, a Muslim couple spend a day talking and walking around London in this gently freewheeling British romantic comedy drama.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

language

sex

discrimination

suicide and self-harm

sexual violence and sexual threat

theme

violence

threat and horror

  • Director(s)

    Haider Zafar

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    12/02/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Sally Ann, Aziz Kemal, Aakash Shukal

infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, discrimination
Classified Date:
15/01/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
London New Wave
language
Infrequent uses of strong language ('f**k') are accompanied by milder terms such as 'skank', 'dick', 'crap', 'shit', 'BS', 'bloody', 'arsehole', 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
Moderate sex references include comments about unprotected sex.
discrimination
Two people of colour comment on each other's former relationships with 'brown' and white partners, and use terms such as 'coconut' and 'Bounty bar' to describe conflicted racial identities. There are also references to sexist attitudes, including in cultural ideas about marriage. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
suicide and self-harm
There is an undetailed suicide reference.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man jokes inappropriately to a woman about holding her captive and then selling her. There are also oblique references to the predatory behaviour of well-known public figures.
theme
There are upsetting scenes centred on the prospect of death.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

  • Classified date

    15/01/2025

  • Language

    English