Lately I’ve been revising a lot of my favourite films. films that I have seen a few times before but also that I haven’t seen for a few years. I do like some cinematic nostalgia and even with so many new films out every single month, week and day. I do like to revisit my favourite.  I first saw ‘Sket’ in 2012 when it arrived on DVD. At that I tried to make sure I checked out every UK film (I still do) and Sket popped up on my radar and I bought the DVD edition of the film. If you haven’t seen it then I do highly recommend it if you like gritty dramas such as the Kidulthood trilogy, Eden Lake, Shank and TV’s Top Boy  Sket is a British slang word for a promiscuous girl or woman and not a nice term to be called. The film ‘Sket’ written and directed by Nirpal Bhogal (First Born) and stars Aimée Kelly as Kayla, a 16 year old girl who finds herself involved with Danielle (played by Emma Hartley-Miller, Hannah (played by Lily Loveless, Kerry (played by Adelayo Adedayo and Kiran (played by Varada Sethu), a gang of girls who fear no one and will stop at nothing to get what they want.  There is also a parallel storyline involving drug dealer Trey (played by Top Boy’s Ashley Walters) and Shaks (played by Riann Steele) which we know will intersect with the storyline of the girl gang at some point in the films duration with explosive consequences, and sure enough. It does and they are. Straight from the start of this 80 minute movie, we know we are in for a gritty and brutal ride.  Sket pulls zero punches and is one hell of a film, but also not one for the super sensitive, perhaps some of that is because the gang violence in this film is primarily girls that are involved and that’s something that we don’t see to often in films, at least that certainly wasn’t the case in 2011 when Sket was released. 

The cast are on top form which also helps make this movie rise to the heights in which I think it does.  The world we spend for the 80 minutes of Sket is a dangerous world, filled with people that would beat you at the blink of an eye and the performances by the cast, and the writing of the story, and the direction of the film will convince you of that 100%. If there is a list of best modern British films, then Sket deserves a place on that list.

For Emma Hartley-Miller, Lily Loveless, Adelayo Adedayo and Varada Sethu. Sket was very early on in their careers but they have all gone on to continue to have great acting careers and you can see from their performances in Sket, that they were already super talented and would be certain to go on to more work on screen. Its also worth noting that Ashley Walters appeared in Sket in 2011 and thats the same year the series Top Boy first aired on Channel 4 here in the UK.   Sket’s writer director Nirpal Bhogal also went on to direct First Born, the short film Londonstani, several episodes of the wonderful TV show Misfits and was directed an episode of Endevour, and DI Ray. 

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