Episodes

1. Part 1

In 1970s London we meet Karim, the son of an India father and an English mother.

2. Part 2

Jamila’s betrothed, Changez, arrives from Bombay but he mainly wants to see Baker Street.

3. Part 3

Eva leaves suburbia for the city. Karim becomes an actor and falls in love with Eleanor.

4. Part 4

Karim becomes a star and goes with Pyke’s play to New York.

Overview

Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.

Details

Cast

Naveen Andrews

Brenda Blethyn

Harish Patel

Jemma Redgrave

Roshan Seth

Steven Mackintosh

Susan Fleetwood

David Bamber

Nisha Nayar

Surendra Kochar