The Indian Doctor
| The Indian Doctor | |
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The title card as shown in Series 2: Episode 2.
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| Genre | Period drama |
| Created by |
Deep Sehgal Tom Ware |
| Written by | Bill Armstrong Tom Ware Deep Sehgal Nicholas Martin Catrin Clarke Sian Naiomi Rob Gittins |
| Directed by | Deep Sehgal Tim Whitby |
| Starring |
Sanjeev Bhaskar Ayesha Dharker |
| Theme music composer | Barnaby Taylor |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 15 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Tom Ware, Deep Sehgal |
| Producer(s) | Cliff Jones Eryl Huw Phillips |
| Location(s) | Wales, UK |
| Editor(s) | John Gillanders |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Rondo Media Avatar Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 1080i |
| Audio format | 5.1 Surround Sound |
| Original release | 15 November 2010 – November 8, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Indian Doctor was a British television drama, set in the 1960s. Produced by Rondo Media and Avatar Productions, it was first broadcast on BBC One in 2010. The most recent series began on 4 November 2013 on BBC One daytime and concluded on 8 November. It is a period comedy drama starring Sanjeev Bhaskar as an Indian doctor who finds work in a South Wales mining village.
The first five-part series was broadcast from Monday 15 November to Friday 19 November 2010. Sanjeev Bhaskar stars as Dr. Prem Sharma, the Indian doctor of the title who moves with his wife Kamini Sharma (Ayesha Dharker) to the small Welsh mining village of Trefelin.
The series is based on a true story of culture clash. On a BBC blog site, Sanjeev Bhaskar describes preparing for the role by talking with relatives who lived during the 1960s, but also by having discussions with a doctor, Prem Subberwal, who emigrated from India with his wife Kamini to work as an NHS doctor in a Welsh village. Subberwal explained that one of the major difficulties he had was in understanding and being understood, not because of the English language, but due to the Welsh accent and various colloquialisms that the people used which the Indian, having learned a more formally structured version of English, could not follow.
The principal storyline revolves around the outwardly jolly colliery manager Richard Sharpe, and the dark secret that he has deliberately ignored safety warnings to develop productivity in his attempts to further his own career. Evidence to this effect exists in the previous doctor's diaries, and the new Indian doctor becomes determined to reveal the truth. Subsidiary storylines revolve around the doctor's relationship with Megan Evans, the blossoming love affair between Tom Evans and Gina Nicolli, the theft of charitable funds by Owen Griffiths, and the truancy (and associated troubles) of Dan Griffiths.
Now, a year after his arrival, Prem faces a new adversary, evangelist preacher Herbert Todd. When an outbreak of smallpox threatens to bring catastrophe to the village, Prem finds himself fighting prejudice and incompetence and locked in a confrontation with the intransigent Todd for the hearts and minds of the villagers. Also, Prem and his wife Kamini nervously await the arrival of his dreaded mother-in-law, Pushpa. With India gripped by the chaos of a smallpox epidemic, Pushpa is taking the opportunity for a long-overdue inspection of her daughter's new life – and the son-in-law of whom she doesn't approve.
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