"Actor: Ayesha Dharker"

• The Indian Doctor Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me & The Kumars At No. 42), Ayesha Dharker (Coronation Street, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee) and Mark Williams (Harry Potter, The Fast Sho | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Period comedy drama set in 1963. A sleepy Welsh mining village is forever changed by the arrival of the new local GP a high-flying Delhi graduate.

• The Indian Doctor Series 2 - Sanjeev Bhaskar & Ayesha Dharker - As Seen on BBC1 | DVD | (04/11/2013) from £4.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (201.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Inspired by real events The Indian Doctor is the award-winning BBC One drama that is a warm and humorous 'fish out of water' story of a high flying doctor who moves to the UK with ambitions to work in a top London surgery only to find himself in a small Welsh village. The second series picks up Prem and Kamini's story nine months later in the early summer of 1964. With Beatlemania now an international phenomenon and British pop music storming the US charts the 60s have really started to swing...in London. But in the South Wales valleys life for most people carries on as usual. Settled in their new home the doctor and his wife are waiting anxiously for the arrival of his mother-in-law from India who upon arriving is not impressed by their surroundings. The village also becomes home to an evangelist minister whose campaign against the evils of the permissive society are somewhat overridden by the activities of his beautiful and spoilt daughter. However the doctor's greatest challenge comes when the village finds itself in the grips of a deadly disease and it's a race against the clock to discover the source of the outbreak and vaccinate the villagers against infection before it's too late.

• Mistress Of Spices | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.24   |  Saving you £17.01 (570.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One spice for passion. And one woman who knows its name. Tilo (Aishwarya Rai) an immigrant from India runs a spice shop in Oakland California. While she supplies the ingredients for curries and kormas she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity: whatever they most desire. However when she suddenly falls in love with a fine American man her powers begin to wane and leave her with a difficult choice.... Acclaimed director Gurinder Chadha co-wrote the screenplay of this romantic drama with her husband Paul Mayeda Berges adapting the script from the novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

• Anita And Me | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set in 1972 this new comedy tells of the friendship that develops between twelve-year-old Meena and her new neighbour, the fourteen-year-old outrageous Anita.

• Outsourced | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) spends his days managing a call centre in Seattle until he gets the bad news from his boss - his job has been outsourced to India. Adding insult to injury Todd must travel to India to train his new replacement. He expects the worst experience of his life and it certainly begins that way! As he navigates through the chaos of Bombay and an office paralyzed by constant cultural misunderstandings Todd yearns to return to the comforts of home. But it is through his team of quirky yet likable Indian call centre workers including his friendly and motivated replacement Puro (Asif Basra) and the charming opinionated Asha (Ayesha Dharker) that Todd realizes that he too has a lot to learn - not only about India and America but about himself. He soon discovers that being outsourced may be the best thing that ever happened to him.

• Anita & Me | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £9.09 (185.51%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set in 1972 this new comedy tells of the friendship that develops between twelve-year-old Meena and her new neighbour, the fourteen-year-old outrageous Anita.

• The Indian Doctor - Series 1-3 Box Set - Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar - As seen on BBC1 | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Life of a South Wales mining village is changed forever when a doctor and his wife arrive from the Indian sub-continent. Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me The Kumars At No.42) and Ayesha Dharker (Coronation Street Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee) the series tells the story of Dr Prem Sharma a high flying Delhi graduate who arrives in the UK in in the 1960’s as part of the “first wave” of Indian Doctors wooed by the then health minister Enoch Powell. Prem and his wife Kamini want to build a new life for themselves following a family tragedy but rather than finding a glamorous job as a consultant in London they find themselves in the sleepy Welsh coal mining village of Trefelin. The local doctor has died and Prem is his replacement. Prem isn’t quite the new Doctor that the locals expected to get and they’re not the only ones to be shocked: Prem’s regal wife isn’t too happy with the situation either. Inspired by real events The Indian Doctor is an award winning BBC One drama that is a warm and humorous fish out of water story also starring Mark Williams (The Fast Show Harry Potter) and Mark Heap (Spaced The Worlds End).

• The Terrorist | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £6.42   |  Saving you £13.57 (211.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Terrorist is a remarkable Indian portrait of a suicide bomber. Ayesha Dharker (who appears in Star Wars, Episode II) gives a heart-rending performance as Malli, a 19-year-old girl whose loved ones have died in an unnamed conflict. From the harsh opening, in which Malli executes a traitor, the film follows her river journey--evoking thoughts of Apocalypse Now--and preparations to turn herself into a human bomb. Then Malli learns something that makes her question her assumptions, and as she rediscovers her humanity the drama builds to one of the most nerve-wracking conclusions in recent cinema. By using generic names such as the Leader and the VIP the film assumes universal relevance, depicting how violence and expediency can turn people into terrorist killing machines. Yet despite the material there is extraordinary poetic beauty in writer, cinematographer and director Santosh (Asoka) Sivan's presentation. He fills the screen with astounding images, precisely composed, focused and lit, while incorporating haunting symbols of love and hate, life and death, memories and dreams. The evocative use of sound also contributes to an extremely atmospheric experience and the result is an intense, subtly powerful film which will appeal to anyone entranced by Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) or Three Colours Blue (1993).--Gary S Dalkin

• The Mystic Masseur | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ganesh a young man living in a community of Indian exiles in Trinidad has ideas of becoming a successful writer. Ganesh is persuaded to marry a local woman who is used to living in luxury unfortunately he cannot afford to finance the lifestyle that she is used to. Together they dream up an idea to make more money Ganesh becomes a 'Mystic Masseur' and claims to be able to cure the sick...

• Mad, Sad & Bad | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Mad, Sad and Bad" is a thirtysomething comedy about an endearingly dysfunctional family and group of friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs and neuroses.