Undercover Mumbai

All eleven episodes of the detective serial set & recorded in Mumbai Inspector 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 credits Written by Ayeesha Menon Script Editors: Mike Walker and Phillip Shelley Produced by Nadir Khan Directed, recorded and edited by John Dryden Assistant Producer/Production Manager: Toral Shah Production Assistant: Vivek Madan Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis, Aditya Khanna and Varrunn Bangera Music: Sacha Putnam Sound Recordists: Hitesh Chaurasia and Ayush Ahuja Sound Design: Steve Bond A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4 Cast Alia - Prerna Chawla Nakul - Anand Tiwari Inspector Desai/Parvez - Rajit Kapur Mrs Gomes - Radhika Mittal Popo - Rohit Malkani Alia's father - Zafar Karachiwala Vikram Naresh - Darius Shroff Commissioner Kripalani - Jayant Kripalani Ratna - Shivani Tanksale Jamal - Kenny Desai Yamraj - Abhay Mahajan Meenakshi - Ratnabali Bhattacharjee Faisal - Prashant Prakash Bala - Prabal Panjabi Hotel Manager - Joy Sengupta Principal Pandey - Sohrab Ardeshir Inspector Siddiqui - Adhir Bhat Home Minister - Satchit Puranik Dhruv - Neil Bhoopalam Shaina Patel - Preetika Chawla Junaid - Tavish Bhattacharya Shahnaz - Shernaz Patel Jaz - Sukant Goel Roopkala - Lovleen Mishra Bhupinder - Aseem Hattangady Patel - Jaimini Pathak Roopkala's son - Ajitesh Gupta Dr. Rao - Sohrab Ardeshir Dr. Rameshwari - Anahita Uberoi Sam/Inspector Kaur/Ensemble - Vivek Madan Pander/Bartender/Ensemble - Nadir Khan Nyla/Adele/Ensemble - Abir Abrar Poona/Ensemble - Kamakshi Rai Boy - Dhruv Hemdev With Karan Pandit, Faezeh Jalali, Devika Shahani-Punjabi, Ayeesha Menon, Ankur Vikal First 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