Meera Syal and Nitin Ganatra are cast in the lead parts and the film is being produced by Bex Hopkins, who produced 'Cross My Heart' and 'Lucky', and Christine Alderson for Ipso Facto Films and Roister Doister Films.
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Meera Syal - Comedian and Author; her debut novel Anita and Me was set in the fictional village of Tollington, based on Essington in the early 1970s.
Abdullah has interviewed a range of prominent Asian actors and musicians including Jay Sean, Meera Syal, Nitin Sawhney and Anoushka Shankar.
In the episode, the Doctor—a time travelling alien played by Matt Smith—and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) land in Wales in 2020, where a drilling operation headed by Nasreen Chaudhry (Meera Syal) is drilling deep into the earth and disrupting a civilisation of Silurians who dwell beneath the earth.