Apnas review – slick British-Asian crime drama mixes family tensions with familiar thrills

A Manchester-set tale of money laundering and divided loyalties pairs slick visuals with well-worn genre beats, an engaging if uneven stab at a sweeping gangster epic

A sizeable wedge of this film’s budget was clearly thrown at its opening scenes: they are set at a lavish British-Pakistani wedding, a shiny Lamborghini coiling around the venue like a polished snake. Elsewhere, Apnas is flimsy and no-frills, dangling the promise of doing something new with the British crime drama, then ticking off all the genre’s boxes, from shotgun-wielding criminals to gangsters sitting in garages feeding wads of cash into money counters.

James Greaney plays Awais, a wide-eyed British Asian accountant…