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Sara Wajid is right when she says the youth market for film and TV is a multicultural one (What keeps all of Britain's colours from the screens? THES , May 3). But she is wrong when she asserts that African-Caribbean and Asian 18 to 24-year-olds are over-represented in higher education and are predominantly in former polytechnics.

In Greater London, 22 per cent of the population may have a background in Africa, Asia or the Caribbean, but here at Brunel University this would be about half of all students. Brunel is not a former polytechnic but an established research-led university.

Schmoozing, as Wajid describes it, may not be the only route to career progression in the media industries. With the success of Monsoon Wedding and with Bombay Dreams about to open on the West End stage, Bollywood's time has more than come.

A Bollywood movie has just completed filming on the Uxbridge campus. With locations in India and West London, Indian Baboo is an epic tale of warring families, battles over land ownership, murder, revenge and higher education. The film required a principal's office, and the filming at Brunel may have been the only occasion when a UK vice-chancellor's desk has had a gun resting on it (or is it?).

Simon Newton
Milton Keynes