Who wrote the Salford-set 1999 British comedy starring Om Puri that rose to popularity along with Anita and Me?
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Anita and Me (film) Anita and Me is a British comedy-drama film released in 2002 based on the book of the same name by Meera Syal. It was released during a period of popularity for British Asian films, alongside such as "East Is East" and "Bend It Like Beckham".
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East Is East (1999 film) East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in Salford, Lancashire, in 1971, in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George (Om Puri) and an English mother, Ella (Linda Bassett).
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Offending Angels Offending Angels is a 2000 British romantic comedy film directed by Andrew Rajan.
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Mrs Merton and Malcolm Mrs Merton and Malcolm was a six-episode BBC One sitcom produced by Granada Television, and transmitted by BBC One in 1999.
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Tim Dawson Tim Dawson (born 1988) is a British screenwriter. He is the creator and writer of BBC Three sitcom "Coming of Age" (2007-2011), which was piloted in 2007 and ran for three series. He was educated at Abingdon School from 1999-2006 and created Coming of Age whilst still a teenager. He has also written for "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps".
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Rambhajjan Zindabaad Rambhajjan Zindabaad (English: "Rise Of Rama Song" ) is a Bollywood fiction film produced by Khalid Kidwai, starring Om Puri in the lead role
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You Rang, M'Lord? You Rang M'Lord? is a BBC television sitcom written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of "Dad's Army", "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" and "Hi-de-Hi!" It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC (although there had earlier been a pilot episode in 1988). The show was a comedy set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London, along the same lines as the popular drama "Upstairs, Downstairs".
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Birds of a Feather Birds of a Feather (commonly abbreviated to BOAF) is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC One from 16 October 1989 to 24 December 1998, then revived on ITV on 2 January 2014. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers.
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Me and Marlborough Me and Marlborough is a 1935 British comedy film, directed by Victor Saville, and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker.
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Me and Me Moke Me and Me Moke is a 1916 British silent comedy film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Edna Flugrath, Gerald Ames and Hubert Willis. The screenplay concerns a young man from a wealthy background who takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.
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Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (literal meaning: 'This Life As It Is') is a sitcom that was popular on Indian television; it aired for the first time in 1984. It was written by comedy writer Sharad Joshi and directed by Kundan Shah, S. S. Oberoi and Raman Kumar.
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Me and Will Me and Will is a 1999 road drama film directed by Melissa Behr and Sherrie Rose. It is also written by Melissa Behr and Sherrie Rose. It stars Sherrie Rose, Melissa Behr, Patrick Dempsey, Seymour Cassel, Grace Zabriskie, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Wirth, Johnny Whitworth, John Enos III, and Julie McCullough. It was produced by Melissa Behr, Sherrie Rose, Pierre David, Joey Forsyte, Jason Hall, Gary Kohn, and Vesco Razpopov. The music was done by the musician Shark.
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Tony Warren Anthony McVay "Tony" Simpson, MBE (8 July 1936 – 1 March 2016), better known by his stage name Tony Warren, was an English television screenwriter, best known for creating the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street". He was an actor, created other television dramas and wrote critically acclaimed novels.
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Meena Shorey Meena Shorey (1921–1989) was an Indian cinema and later Pakistani cinema actress, who worked in Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi films. Credited in films by her mononym, Meena, her real name was Khurshid Jehan. She started her acting career playing a character role, as Ambhi, Raja of Taxila's sister in Sohrab Modi's "Sikandar" (1941). Married to her third husband, Roop K. Shorey, by the mid-1940s, she found fame when she acted in her husband's film "Ek Thi Ladki" (1949), opposite actor Motilal. The story was written by I. S. Johar, who also starred in the film. The "foot-tapping" music composed by Vinod became a "huge hit", with Meena becoming an "icon" for the "new liberated" young women. Meena was acclaimed as the "Lara Lappa Girl", from the song of same title in the film. She was one of the first women to be recognised in Indian cinema as a "comedienne of calibre".
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Mumbai Calling Mumbai Calling is a British-Indian comedy series, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, set in the fictional Teknobable call centre in Mumbai. The series was shot on location in India. The pilot first aired on ITV on 30 May 2007. The first series aired on ABC1 (Australia) starting on 12 May 2009, and on ITV starting on 30 May 2009.
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Juhi Chaturvedi Juhi Chaturvedi (Hindi: जूही चतुर्वेदी , born 1975) is an Indian screenwriter and advertising professional based in Mumbai. Chaturvedi has written scripts for Bollywood films "Vicky Donor" (2012) and "Piku" (2015).
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Please Turn Over Please Turn Over is a 1959 British comedy film written by Norman Hudis and directed by Gerald Thomas. It featured Ted Ray, Julia Lockwood, Jean Kent, Joan Sims, Leslie Phillips, Charles Hawtrey, Lionel Jeffries and Victor Maddern. The screenplay concerns an English suburb that is thrown into chaos when the daughter of one of the residents publishes a book detailing the supposed secrets of the inhabitants. It was based on the play "Book of the Month" by Basil Thomas.
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Arohan (film) Arohan ("The Ascent") is 1982 Hindi film by Shyam Benegal, starring Victor Banerjee and Om Puri in the lead roles.
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Naukar Ki Kameez Naukar Ki Kameez (The Servant's Shirt) is a 1999 Hindi film based on Vinod Kumar Shukla's novel, of the same name. It was directed by Mani Kaul and starred Pankaj Sudhir Mishra, Anu Joseph and Om Prakash Dwivedi.
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Galton and Simpson Ray Galton OBE (born 17 July 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017), were an English comedy scriptwriting partnership. They met in 1948 whilst recuperating from tuberculosis at the Milford sanatorium, near Godalming in Surrey. The sitcom "Get Well Soon" (co-written by Galton) concerns their shared experiences at the facility. They are best known for their work with comedian Tony Hancock on radio and television between 1954 and 1961, and their long-running television situation comedy, "Steptoe and Son", eight series of which were aired between 1962 and 1974.
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Anita Rani Anita Rani Nazran (born 25 October 1977), better known as Anita Rani, is a British radio and television presenter of East Indian descent.
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Me and the Big Guy Me and the Big Guy is a 1999 short film that parodies "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by way of lampooning the fact that Big Brother is watching everyone, even those he'd rather not.