Asha and Ajay lead a predictable married life. Every day Ajay goes to work, comes home, eats his dinner of curry (always with coconut), watches telly and goes to bed. Lonely and frustrated, Asha escapes to the India of her imagination. Suddenly Mahatma Gandhi, and the Hindu Gods Shiva, and Kali arrive for tea and […]

Naz disturbs Rose dancing on the roof of a Mayfair mansion at 3 am. He’s fixing a satellite dish. She’s escaping her rich stepdad’s party. She’s in Paul Smith and an expensive headscarf. He’s in low-slung jeans and a hoodie. He’s Bengali. She’s an English Rose. Rose has a secret. Naz has to pay a […]

Set in a familiar world not so far in the future when Identity Cards are compulsory and people are validated only by their digital ID in the National Identity Database. But the system is crumbling; Identity fraud is endemic. Identities are being accidentally lost, corrupted and even deleted. There are those who don’t officially exist. […]

In the cotton fields of Punjab, Baba, an ageing farmer tends to his crop and pins his hopes of prosperity on GM seeds and Western pesticides. His feckless son, Dhani, full of frustrated ambition, dreams of going to America. His more dutiful daughter, Chandni is torn between staying on the land she loves and facing […]

A young couple return home to confront the fault lines of prejudice and cultural division that had driven them to find sanctuary just a few miles down the road in Birmingham.  Reflecting a real slice of life in the Black Country, A Thin Red Line explores today’s social and cultural partitions, both hidden and visible, in the way […]

Deema and Tariq don’t want their lives to end up like their parents. They don’t want to sit around dreaming of things that will never be theirs. But how can they be different when their parents expect them to live by the same morals they lived by? Traditional values don’t always apply when you’re trying […]

Mushtaq’s student visa is about to run out but he’s desperate to stay in London so he can support his family back home. Working two jobs back to back he saves enough money to pay Laila, who has a flourishing business in arranging marriages of convenience. But Mushtaq’s dreams of a perfect life with a […]

Mr Rizvi wants to be a local councillor. His disapproving wife is slowly losing her grip. Auntie Moona, the friendly neighbour always turns up when least wanted. His eldest son harbours a guilty secret. And then his youngest son announces he plans to go and fight in Afghanistan. Mr Rizvi’s dreams of a united world […]

Bells takes us into the seedy world of Mujra (courtesan) clubs, a centuries-old tradition in Pakistan which is now growing in Britain. A butcher’s shop by day and a brothel by night, Bells has all the sparkle of Lollywood but the glitz and glamour are tarnished by the pain and degradation of secret lives. Is […]

Two sisters return to the crumbling Calcutta home of their childhood. When family secrets are revealed, the women are forced to re-examine their relationship with their mother and the reality of their own lives in the light of a hidden past. Set in the little known Indian Jewish community of Calcutta, this funny and moving […]