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SYNOPSISMad, Sad & 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. Mad, Sad & Bad is nominated for the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009 |
TALENTMEERA SYAL (RASHMI) Meera is a celebrated journalist, writer, television and film actress and comedian. She starred in films, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Anita and Me, a screen adaptation of her Betty Trask Award-winning novel of the same name. Television includes The Kumars at Number 42, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee and the multi-award winning Goodness Gracious Me. She wrote the West End hit show Bombay Dreams and was awarded an MBE in 1997. NITIN GANATRA (ATUL) Nitin was born in Kenya, moving to Britain, aged four, in 1971. He has appeared in feature films including Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice and recently Shifty. Television audiences will know him well from Jane Hall, Meet The Magoons, as Masood Ahmed in EastEnders and in Mumbai Calling. ZUBIN VARLA (HARDEEP) Zubin trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is an accomplished stage actor. He has appeared with the National Theatre in Life of Galileo and Cyrano de Bergerac and with the RSC in The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Midnight’s Children. Also a singer, he starred in the West End production of Jesus Christ Superstar and has appeared on television in Saddam’s Tribe, Spooks and Twelfth Night. Film credits include Jacob directed by Sir Peter Hall. ANDREA RISEBOROUGH (JULIA) Award-winning actress Andrea graduated from RADA in 2005. She played Labour researcher Kirsty MacKenzie in BBC2’s Party Animals before becoming a young Margaret Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley, for which she received a BAFTA nomination. She won awards for her work in the Royal Court’s productions of Miss Julie/Measure for Measure, and appears in Roger Michell’s film Venus and Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky. This year she will shoot Never Let Me Go alongside Keira Knightley. LEENA DHINGRA (USHA) Leena was born in India, grew up in Paris and was educated in England, where she first took to the stage with the New Shakespeare Company and the Bedford Repertory Company. More recent acting credits include television appearances on EastEnders, Coronation Street and the BBC’s adaptation of The Canterbury Tales. Film work includes East Is East, Bend It Like Beckham and Provoked. AYESHA DHARKER (ROXY) Born in Bombay, Ayesha’s career spans theatre, television and film. Stage appearances include roles in the West End and Broadway productions of Bombay Dreams. Television includes Cutting It, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee alongside Meera Syal and Coronation Street. Film credits include The Terrorist; Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Anita and Me. TONY GARDNER (GRAHAM) Tony, a qualified GP, performed for many years with Phil Hammond as the medical comedy duo Struck Off and Die, winning accolades on the Edinburgh Fringe (twice named Perrier Pick of the Festival) and on Radio 4 (Writer’s Guild Award for Comedy). Television audiences will recognise him as a regular on Bremner, Bird and Fortune, My Parents Are Aliens and Lead Balloon. Mad, Sad and Bad is his feature film debut. AVIE LUTHRA (WRITER/DIRECTOR) Avie graduated from the Director’s Course at the National Film and Television School, UK and was listed in Screen International’s “Stars of Tomorrow” 2004. In 2006, he was nominated for a Bafta for the short film Lucky, which picked up a string of international awards and was Oscar shortlisted. He wrote and directed Cross My Heart for Film4. His screenplay (winner of the Dennis Potter Award ) Indian Dream was made for BBC television and he scripted The Sea Captain’s Tale for the BBC’s Canterbury Tales season. Avie is also a practicing psychiatrist. |
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