Category: TV Entertainment; 大象传媒 ONE
Date: 05.12.2005
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This month a brand new comedy drama comes to 大象传媒 ONE specifically written for its star Sanjeev Bhaskar - Chopratown.
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Sanjeev (The Kumars at No 42, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee) plays Vik Chopra, a British Asian private detective working in and around the cultural melting pot that is East London.
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One thing these people share is a strong sense of pride and a mistrust of the police.
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Myriad immigrant communities bring their quirky cases to ex-cop Chopra, whose police training and street-wise saviness deliver the goods.
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His new assistant Annie (Natalie Casey, Two Pints of Lager, Hollyoaks) is young, enthusiastic and smart, and she won't take his bad temper or attitude lying down.
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Meanwhile Chopra's ex-mate and nemesis Nigel Caro (Neil Stuke, Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky) is still in the force and turns up on Vik's patch as a newly promoted Detective Inspector.
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Vik handles all of this whilst juggling the twin demands of his estranged wife and baby daughter and his overbearing parents.
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Producer Anil Gupta comments: "Chopratown is inspired by shows such as The Rockford Files and Minder, interesting, funny people in an interesting, funny world.
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"Lots of cop shows nowadays are gritty and moody, about gruesome serial killers, and we wanted to do an antidote to that, something light and vibrant, warm, exotic and exciting.
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"We have cast people with great comic timing as characters who, like Jim Rockford or Arthur Daley, people can take to their hearts."
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Sanjeev Bhaskar says: "In Chopra's head he is Philip Marlow or Sam Spade, a loner who doesn't care, a glamorous private eye, but in fact his cases involve bakeries and a kidnapped cow and he has to go round his parents' house for dinner."
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Chopratown also stars Omid Djalili, Basienka Blake and Morwenna Banks.
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It is created by Anil Gupta, Richard Pinto and Sharat Sardana (Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars At No 42), written by Richard Pinto and produced by Anil Gupta.
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It is directed by Sean Grundy and is a Hat Trick Production for 大象传媒 ONE.
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The first programme is on 大象传媒 ONE on Monday 19 December 2005 at 9.00pm.
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