First published on We Are Cult on the 21st of August 2017 The BFI are re-releasing My Beautiful Laundrette, a comedy drama from 1985, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears. Omar Ali, played by Gordon Warnecke, is a British-Pakistani twenty-year-old living in Battersea. His father, a former journalist and now an alcoholic…