Come on BBC...at least get the Eastenders wedding right! (From Asian Image)

Come on BBC...at least get the Eastenders wedding right!

4:17pm Saturday 2nd January 2010

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I must admit the Muslim wedding in Eastenders had me stitches.

It was not that I had anything against the storyline. Yes, script writers need to get us stop churning out the same old storylines when it comes to Asians.

We are either having a forced marriage, trying to bomb something or someone is gay.

As far back as I can remember...’The Beautiful Launderette’ in my case, the gay storyline involving some Muslim has always caused some level of controversy.

In this case I thought the story was the least of anyone’s problems.

In fact it was done quite well and the drama at the end had me riveted to my seat. Would he tell the truth or wouldn’t he? I’m not much of soap watcher but I tuned in to watch this regardless.

My main gripe had to do with the BBC. Here is an organisation that has changed a lot from the days when we had white folk painting their faces black and speaking in an Indian accent. But surprisingly they are still making the same mistakes.

With so much resources at hand they couldn’t even get a Muslim wedding right. It was colourful and noisy but the priest couldn’t speak the lingo properly and the wedding vows were all wrong. What was the priest doing sat between the bride and groom?

At least attempt to make it as realistic as possible. It was Indian and then Pakistani - what on earth was going on!

For a prime-time show which was watched by millions at least try to get as close to a real Pakistani Muslim wedding as possible.

The whole thing reminded me of one of 1960s botched jobs put together by some middle-aged white man who ‘thought it happened this way so it must!’

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