My Sister Wife (Original title)
Date: 23 February 1992 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Lesley Manning
Production company billing: BBC Films for Screen Two In Colour
Synopsis: Asif Shah, a rich Pakistani businessman in London, asks Farah Khan to marry him. She agrees but on moving in with him she finds herself sharing the house with Asif's mother and his wife from a marriage arranged abroad and unregistered in the UK.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Indian community, Polygamy
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 23 February 1992Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:00-23:30Runtime: 86 mins 12 secs - Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n1 May 1992: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Bazaar n21 Summer 1992 Pages: 4-5
Title: Show me your stuffAuthor: BHIDE, Smita Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Career profile of Asmaa Pirzada in which she talks about her work as a script editor particularly her involvement with MY SISTER WIFE
In: Screen International n829 18 Oct 1991 Page: 20
Title: [Screen International - n829 18 Oct 1991: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Author: CARSON, Bruce Pages: iv, 156p.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Digital materials(1)
Description: MOVDuration: 01:27:34 minutesV210 - TX date: 1992-02-23BFI identifier: N-3643948
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Video materials(2)
Description: 1-inch C-FormatDuration: 86.29 minutesLine standard: 625Colour standard: PALTX date: 1992-02-23BFI identifier: C-687201
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Description: Digital BetacamBFI identifier: N-376174
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Date: 23 February 1992 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Lesley Manning
Production company billing: BBC Films for Screen Two In Colour
Synopsis: Asif Shah, a rich Pakistani businessman in London, asks Farah Khan to marry him. She agrees but on moving in with him she finds herself sharing the house with Asif's mother and his wife from a marriage arranged abroad and unregistered in the UK.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Indian community, Polygamy
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 23 February 1992Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:00-23:30Runtime: 86 mins 12 secs - Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Credits
(24)
Production Company: BBC Films, Executive Producer: Mark Shivas, Producer: Ruth Baumgarten, Production Associate: Ralph Wilton, Production Manager: Terry Wright, Location Manager: Harbhajan Virdi, Assistant Director: Dermot Boyd, Assistant Director: Jamie Annett, Beni Turkson, Casting (Adviser): Sarah Bird, Screenplay: Meera Syal, Based on an idea by: Asmaa Pirzada, Director of Photography: Chris Seager, Visual Effects Designer: Stuart Brisdon, Graphic Designer: Rosalind Dallas, Editor: Chris Swanton, Production Designer: Tony Burrough, Costume Designer: Odile Dicks-Mireaux, Make-up Designer: Elaine Smith, Music: Philip Appleby, Sound Recording: Jim Greenhorn, Sound Recording: Keith Marriner, Sound Editor: Graham Lawrence
Cast
(30)
Paul Bhattacharjee (Asif Shah), Shaheen Khan (Maryam), Meera Syal (Farah Khan), Harriet Bagnall (Poppy), Souad Faress (Mumtaz), Rashid Karapiet (Tariq), Rachna Kapur (Sapna), Anisha Gangotra (Soraya), Jake Sharkey (photographer), Surendra Kochar (Sabia), Ranjit Krishnamma, Tim Potter (man at party), Barbara Keogh (Maureen), Adlyn Ross (Mrs Siddiqui), Sakuntala Ramanee (fantasy wife 1), Suneeta Rathore (fantasy wife 2), Dippie Sagoo (fantasy wife 3), Norma Dixit (fantasy wife 4), Usha Patel (servant), Shireen Shah (Fauzia), Tania Rodrigues (young woman), Syreeta Kumar (bride), Vidya Wati Rampal (Bibi-ji), Tom Knight (Henry), Peter Howell (Harley Street doctor), Buffy Davis (hospital doctor), Ali Asghar (departing guest), Mary Jo Randle (television producer), Martin Waller (television director), Garard Green ([originally cast])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(3)
In: Sight and Sound v2 n1 May 1992 Pages: 62-63Title: [Sight and Sound - v2 n1 May 1992: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
In: Bazaar n21 Summer 1992 Pages: 4-5
Title: Show me your stuffAuthor: BHIDE, Smita Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Career profile of Asmaa Pirzada in which she talks about her work as a script editor particularly her involvement with MY SISTER WIFE
In: Screen International n829 18 Oct 1991 Page: 20
Title: [Screen International - n829 18 Oct 1991: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
(1)
Title: Frames and fictions on television: the politics of identity within dramaAuthor: CARSON, Bruce Pages: iv, 156p.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Digital materials(1)
Description: MOVDuration: 01:27:34 minutesV210 - TX date: 1992-02-23BFI identifier: N-3643948
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Video materials(2)
Description: 1-inch C-FormatDuration: 86.29 minutesLine standard: 625Colour standard: PALTX date: 1992-02-23BFI identifier: C-687201
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Description: Digital BetacamBFI identifier: N-376174
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape