Ayeesha Menon – författare

All eleven episodes of the detective serial set & recorded in MumbaiInspector Alia Khan is a tough, determined female cop struggling to make her mark in a male-dominated world. As she fights to uncover crime and corruption, she must also battle the endemic sexism of the police force, and the patronising, chauvinist attitudes of her boss and colleagues - as well as dealing with her own personal demons.In Series 1, landed with a new partner, she investigates a rescued baby, a missing husband, a child prostitution ring and strange goings-on at a psychiatric hospital. When a glamour model is found dead in a five-star hotel, she sets out on the trail of Bollywood''s leading heart-throb, and uncovers murder, political scandal - and the truth about her policeman father''s death.In Series 2, the disgraced police inspector has just been released from jail. Seeking a life of obscurity, she gets a job as a receptionist in a run-down Mumbai hotel. But when a serial killer starts operating on the rooftop, Alia is called in. Paired up with incompetent Inspector Ratna Shinde, she soon realises that the murderer is trying to communicate with her through the victims themselves...Series 3 finds Alia going undercover after suspicions are raised about a young woman''s death. When Nyla Ansari is found in a bathtub in her parents'' home, a bottle of pills beside her, it looks like suicide. Then a video is discovered, made by Nyla a year before. In it, she claims her father, a wealthy Indian businessman, was going to kill her. Posing as a newly married couple, Alia and her male colleague Junaid Qureshi move into the flat next door. Their mission: befriend Nyla''s family, friends and servants, and find out the truth...Written by Ayeesha Menon, these fast-paced crime thrillers, recorded on location in India, star Prerna Chawal as Alia, with Anand Tiwari, Rajit Kapur, Shivani Tanksale, Tavish Bhattacharya, Rohit Malkani and Radhika Mital.Production creditsWritten by Ayeesha MenonScript Editors: Mike Walker and Phillip ShelleyProduced by Nadir KhanDirected, recorded and edited by John DrydenAssistant Producer/Production Manager: Toral ShahProduction Assistant: Vivek MadanEditing Assistants: Andrew Lewis, Aditya Khanna and Varrunn BangeraMusic: Sacha PutnamSound Recordists: Hitesh Chaurasia and Ayush AhujaSound Design: Steve BondA Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4CastAlia - Prerna ChawlaNakul - Anand TiwariInspector Desai/Parvez - Rajit KapurMrs Gomes - Radhika MittalPopo - Rohit MalkaniAlia''s father - Zafar KarachiwalaVikram Naresh - Darius ShroffCommissioner Kripalani - Jayant KripalaniRatna - Shivani TanksaleJamal - Kenny DesaiYamraj - Abhay MahajanMeenakshi - Ratnabali BhattacharjeeFaisal - Prashant PrakashBala - Prabal PanjabiHotel Manager - Joy SenguptaPrincipal Pandey - Sohrab ArdeshirInspector Siddiqui - Adhir BhatHome Minister - Satchit PuranikDhruv - Neil BhoopalamShaina Patel - Preetika ChawlaJunaid - Tavish BhattacharyaShahnaz - Shernaz PatelJaz - Sukant GoelRoopkala - Lovleen MishraBhupinder - Aseem HattangadyPatel - Jaimini PathakRoopkala''s son - Ajitesh GuptaDr. Rao - Sohrab ArdeshirDr. Rameshwari - Anahita UberoiSam/Inspector Kaur/Ensemble - Vivek MadanPander/Bartender/Ensemble - Nadir KhanNyla/Adele/Ensemble - Abir AbrarPoona/Ensemble - Kamakshi RaiBoy - Dhruv HemdevWith Karan Pandit, Faezeh Jalali, Devika Shahani-Punjabi, Ayeesha Menon, Ankur VikalFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 9-14 September 2013 (Series 1), 18-19 August 2015 (Series 2), 11-13 September 2019©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd