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Meera Syal

Meera Syal

Meera Syal MBE (born Feeroza Syal on 27 June 1961) is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42.

She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997 and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy.

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Movies Starring Meera Syal (47)

The Canterville Ghost (2023)

An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years. ...

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The Smeds and the Smoos (2023)

In this animated intergalactic adventure, the red Smeds and the blue Smoos must learn to overcome their differences and work together to find young Janet and Bill – who eloped to escape their families' long standing rivalries. ...

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The Almond and the Seahorse (2022)

For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on ...

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Spin (2021)

Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother's death, she has been her father's emotional rock, and her life revolves around her family's restaurant, her eclectic group of friends, and her after-school coding club. Everything c ...

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Dragon Rider (2020)

An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to find the "Rim of Heaven" - the mythological safe haven for all dragons. ...

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Yesterday (2019)

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was forgotten. ...

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Nativity Rocks! (2018)

The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition. ...

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

When Clara's mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world. ...

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Patrick (2018)

A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog. ...

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To Provide All People (2018)

To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birthing of Nye Bevan's vision of free healthcare for all people with personal stories of the NHS in British s ...

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The Homestay (2018)

A sheltered Indian couple visits their son in the U.S. for the first time and bungles their apartment rental, ending up in close quarters with their hosts, a gay couple and their dogs. ...

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Paddington 2 (2017)

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen. ...

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Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt (2017)

Priti, a British-born Indian woman in the West Midlands, reports a violent incident in the street. ...

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Doctor Strange (2016)

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil. ...

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Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2016)

Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy. ...

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Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter. ...

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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version (2015)

Through ten carefully chosen cover versions that whisk us from the British Invasion to a noughties X Factor final, this film journeys over five decades to track how artists as varied as The Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Puff Daddy and Alexandra Burke have scored ...

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Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)

Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, ...

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National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2015)

India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve an ...

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Absolutely Anything (2015)

Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving. ...

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The Boy in the Dress (2014)

Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and brother, but frustrated by the boring grey world he inhabits. Life has never really been the same since his mum ...

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The Boy in the Dress (2014)

Dennis is an ordinary boy but he feels different. He creates a whole new persona and puts it to the ultimate test - can a boy wear a dress? ...

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Much Ado About Nothing (2012)

Iqbal Khan's vibrant and colourful production transposed Shakespeare's vivacious and sometimes unsettling comedy of love and deceit to an Indian setting. ...

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All in Good Time (2012)

East Is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina ...

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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow t ...

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Desert Flower (2009)

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation. ...

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Mad Sad & Bad (2009)

HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and fri ...

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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)

London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other "how I met my fiancé" stories to kill time. ...

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Scoop (2006)

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls. ...

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The Children's Party at the Palace (2006)

To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters from British children's literature. But when the baddies, led by Cruella de Vil, discover that they have no ...

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The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million (2005)

The true story of Joyti De-Laurey, a wife and mother whose job as a secretary at investment bankers Goldman Sachs eventually led her to spend millions of pounds of her employers' money without their knowledge. ...

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Anita and Me (2002)

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfu ...

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Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India (2002)

A British-made documentary about the highly competitive world of beauty pageants in India, culminating with the top prize: Miss India. Following the efforts of several of the contestants, as well as others involved in the behind-the-scenes work of getting ...

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Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime (2000)

A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities. ...

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Forgive and Forget (2000)

David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A ragin ...

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Girls' Night (1998)

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and ...

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A Night in with the Girls (1997)

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997. ...

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Crossing the Floor (1996)

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. S ...

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Beautiful Thing (1996)

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood. ...

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It's Not Unusual (1995)

A taxi driver is driven to distraction by her love of Tom Jones. ...

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A Nice Arrangement (1994)

Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as possible. ...

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O Mary This London (1994)

Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour. ...

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Memsahib Rita (1994)

Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her white mother. ...

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My Sister-Wife (1992)

Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in nam ...

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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's ...

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Handsworth Songs (1986)

The Black Audio Film Collective's acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aes ...

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Majdhar (1984)

Cultural identity, women's independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which explores both British-Asian experience and the plight of recent immigrants. Rita Wolf (My Beautiful Laundrette), pla ...

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Movies Made By Meera Syal (5)

Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt (2017)

Priti, a British-born Indian woman in the West Midlands, reports a violent incident in the street. ...

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Anita and Me (2002)

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfu ...

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A Nice Arrangement (1994)

Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as possible. ...

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Bhaji on the Beach (1993)

A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort. ...

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My Sister-Wife (1992)

Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in nam ...

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