The story is set in London during the period when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United

Kingdom, as shown through the complex and often comical relationships between members of the Asian and White communities. The story focuses on Omar, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reuniting and eventual romance with his old friend, a street punk named Johnny. The two become the caretakers and business managers of a launderette originally owned by Omar's uncle Nasser. The plot tackles many polemical issues, such as homosexuality, racism, and Britain's economic and political policy during the 1980s. .

My Beautiful Laundrette was Frears' fifth feature film. Originally shot for television, it was later released in cinemas and eventually became his first international success.

Frears was born in Leicester, England. He was born on the 20th of June 1941. After graduating from Cambridge, Frears worked as an assistant director on some films but spent most of his early directing career in television mainly for the BBC but also for the commercial sector. In the mid-1980s, Frears came to international attention as an important director of British and American films. His production of the Hanif Kureishi screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette, that unexpectedly led to his wider notice. The production, shot on 16mm film.

Known for making provocative, stylized, and tightly budgeted films about people living on society's social and/or sexual fringes, British director Stephen Frears is renowned as one of his country's most vibrant and recognizable filmmakers Regarding his tendency to make films that branch into unfamiliar territory, Frears has said that he likes "making films about different cultures...I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position."

Margaret Hilda Thatcher has many claims to fame. She was our first woman prime minister. She was premier for longer than anyone else in twentieth-century Britain, winning three successive election victories and heading Conservative governments for a total of 11 years. She was also an extremely controversial figure, both idolised and vilified. Uniquely, she was the only premier to give her name to a set of political policies and attitudes. At the 1983 general election, in spite of unemployment doubling to some three million, the government won a landslide victory thanks in large part to Labours divisions and its left-wing policies. .Trade unions now operated in a tighter legal framework, including: the requirement for pre-strike ballots; the spread of privatisation of the major utilities altered the balance of the mixed economy. he government abandoned its commitment to full employment, stating this was the responsibility of employers and employees, and accorded priority instead to keeping inflation low. Welfare state benefits were increasingly subject to meanstesting.Government insisted that it could no longer be a universal provider. More should be left to the market, the voluntary sector and self-help.