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My Sister Wife (Original title)
Date: 23 February 1992 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: 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

Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (3)
In: Sight and Sound v2 n1 May 1992  Pages: 62-63
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


Books held in BFI Reuben Library (1)
Title: Frames and fictions on television: the politics of identity within drama
Author: CARSON, Bruce  Pages: iv, 156p.