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
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
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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
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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])