Mumbai Calling
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 2007 - 2009
- 8 episodes (1 series)
ITV sitcom set in an Indian call centre. British-born Kenny is sent to India to run the business. He must work with Dev and Terri. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Ganatra, Daisy Beaumont, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Naren Chandavarkar and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4 - Boy To Man
Further details
Terri sets out to give the operators a crash course in self-confidence. Amar, Dev's assistant, is seriously distracted, and Dev quickly finds out that it is because his parents are forcing him into an arranged marriage. At the Assertiveness Workshop Amar is chosen as the subject, and Terri succeeds in giving him a corporate bitch slapping. He runs off a broken man.
Terri, Kenny and Dev follow Amar to the train station where they each make their case for and against the arranged marriage.
They all go to Amar's house where Amar, filled with confidence, takes a stand and is surprised at the parents supportive reaction.
Notes
First shown in India on the 29 November 2008
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 20th June 2009
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | Kenny Gupta |
| Nitin Ganatra | Dev |
| Daisy Beaumont | Terri Johnson |
| Ratnabali Bhattacharjee | Sarika |
| Naren Chandavarkar | Amit |
| Preetika Chawla | Nayna |
| Siddarth Kumar | Prem |
| Samar Sarila | Nikhil |
| Namit Das | Amar |
| Raoul Amar Abbas | Sweety Singh |
| Vivek Gomber | Lovely Singh |
| Anaitha Nair | Bindiya |
| Puja Sarip | Geeta |
| Vir Das | Operator |
| Tracey Ullman | Telephone Caller (Voice) |
| Joe Duttine | Telephone Caller (Voice) |
| John Standing | Telephone Caller (Voice) |
| Josephine Butler (as Jo Butler) | Telephone Caller (Voice) |
| Lillete Dubey | Amar's mother |
| Rajendra Gupta | Amar's Father |
| Nitin Ganatra | Writer |
| Colin Swash | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dan Gaster | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Carl Carter | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Tony Cooke | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Meera Syal | Script Development |
| Anuvab Pal | Script Development |
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Simon Blackwell | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Kabir Akhtar | Director |
| Ned Parker | Producer |
| Allan McKeown | Executive Producer |
| Ranjeet Bahadur | Editor |
| Leela Chanda | Production Designer |
| Vivek Rajagopalan | Composer |