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Other television
appearances include roles in comedy series Small Potatoes,
The Grimleys, and Bhaskar wrote and starred in the recent
comedy series The Kumars at Number 42, where he cast Meera
Syal as his grandmother.
On film, Bhaskar
made a cameo appearance in the romantic comedy blockbuster
Notting Hill, starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, and will
soon be seen in Merchant Ivory's Mystic Masseur, where his
co-stars include Ayesha Dharker and Zohra Segal.
AYESHA DHARKER
(Mama) began her film career at the age of nine, when
she played the lead role in the French film Manika, The Girl
Who Lived Twice, co-starring with Julian Sands and Stephane
Audran, which won a prize at Cannes Film Festival. She is
soon to be seen on screen in a leading role, as Queen Jamillia,
in George Lucas' Star Wars 2.
Born and raised in Bombay, Dharker has acted
all over the world, coming to international attention for
her lead role in The Terrorist, directed by Santosh Sivan.
The film won three awards at the National Film Awards, as
well as a nomination for Best Actress for Dharker, in addition
to three awards at the Cairo Film Festival, which included
Best Actress.
Other recent roles include leading roles
in Arabian Nights, the Emmy award-winning Hallmark mini-series,
and the Merchant Ivory production Mystic Masseur.
Ayesha Dharker will take the leading role
on the London stage in Andrew
Lloyd Webber's new musical Bombay Dreams, written by Meera
Syal.
KATHY BURKE (Deirdre) has emerged
as one of Britain's best known actresses, with leading roles
in drama and comedy on television and film.
Her television credits include appearances
in award-winning comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, Harry
Enfield and Chums, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Common As Muck and
Tom Jones (both the latter directed by Metin Huseyin), and
the drama Mr Wroe's Virgins, for which Burke was awarded the
Best Actress at the Royal Television Society Awards.
Kathy Burke was named as Best Actress at
the Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Gary Oldman's
Nil by Mouth. Other film roles include Dancing At Lughnasa,
directed by Pat O'Connor, the Oscar nominated Elizabeth, directed
by Shekhar Kapur, David Kane's romantic comedy This Year's
Love, and Kevin and Perry the Movie, co-starring with Harry
Enfield.
She will next be seen on screen starring
in Shane Meadows' Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, starring
alongside Rhys Ifans and Shirley Henderson.
LYNN REDGRAVE (Mrs Ormerod), a scion
of the famous acting clan, (daughter of Michael Redgrave and
Rachel Kempson, sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave),
was already a veteran of stage, screen and television when
she was nominated for her first Academy Award in 1966, for
her leading role in Georgy Girl. The film gained her a nomination
for the BAFTA as well as winning her a Golden Globe and a
New York Film Critics Award. In 1997 she was nominated for
a BAFTA for her supporting role in the multi award winning
film Shine, and in 1997 was again nominated for a BAFTA, a
Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar for Gods and Monsters,
for which she won a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit
Award and the London Film Critics Award.
For her television work she has been nominated
for an Emmy and a Golden Globe, for the series House Calls.
On Broadway, Lynn Redgrave has been twice
nominated for a Tony Award, for her roles in Mrs Warren’s
Profession (1976) and Shakespeare for My Father (1993), her
autobiographical one woman show.
Beginning in 1963 with a role in the film
Tom Jones, Lynn Redgrave’s screen career spans more than
fifty films, most recently appearing in David Cronenberg’s
Spider, opposite Ralph Fiennes.
In 2001, she was honoured by Queen Elizabeth
II, who awarded her the OBE (Officer of the British Empire).
MAX BEESLEY (Hairy Neddy),since graduating
from the Guildhall School of Music, has established careers
in acting and the music business. He has played with Style
Council, Paul Weller, Brand New Heavies, Jamiroquai, Earth
Wind and Fire, George Michael, Take That and Chaka Khan.
On television Metin Huseyin cast him as
the lead in the BBC drama Tom Jones. This was followed by
leading roles in the films The Match, directed by Mick Davis,
Five Seconds to Spare, directed by Tom Connolly, Stephen Norrington's
The Last Minute, and Hotel, directed by Mike Figgis.
MARK WILLIAMS (Uncle Alan) is best
known to audiences as part of the award-winning
comedy team who write and perform television's The Fast Show.
After studying English at Oxford, Williams toured for three
years with The Mikron Theatre Company, and appeared on stage
with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Royal Court as
well as London's West End.
He has appeared in a range of television
comedy and drama, including the epic television adaptation
of Gormenghast, the award-winning Tumbledown, the comedy series
Red Dwarf, Peak Practice, Randall and Hopkirk deceased and,
most recently, Shackelton, directed by Charles Sturridge,
starring alongside Kenneth Branagh.
Film roles include the Oscar-winning Shakespeare
in Love, directed by John Madden, The Borrowers, directed
by Peter Hewitt, and 101 Dalmations, directed by Stephen Herek.
Born in Kensington, British born Iranian
OMID DJALILI (Uncle) has played an Azerbaijani in the James
Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough, a Moroccan slave trader
in Gladiator, and a Cairo prison guard in The Mummy.
Other recent film appearances include roles
in Spy Game, with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford and The Mean
Machine, produced by Guy Ritchie and starring Vinnie Jones.
When not filming, Djalili presents his one
man stand-up comedy show to
sell-out audiences around the country.
ZOHRA SEGAL (Nanima), now in her
eighties, has a career spanning stage, television
and film, both in the UK and her native India.
Recent film appearances include roles in
Gurinda Chada's Bend It Like Beckham and Bhaji on the Beach,
scripted by Meera Syal, Merchant Ivory productions Mystic
Masseur, The Courtesans and The Guru, and John Mackenzie's
The Honorary Consul.
On British television Segal has appeared
in series including Tandoori Nights, The Bill and the award-winning
epic Jewel in the Crown.
Zohra Segal is a leading actress and Dance
Director of Prithvi Theatre, Bombay, in addition to being
vice president of the Indian Peoples Theatre
Association and Principal of the National Academy of Dance
and Drama in New Delhi.
Release date: 22 Nov
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 93 mins
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