Mumbai Crime

Episode 2 of our 10 part series Six Suspects. Arun tell us all about Shabna Saxena, the Bollywood star whom Vicky Rai wants to control. In this episode, stardom, a devoted fan and a terrible secret. Send your questions! Questions@goldhawkproductions.org CAST: ARUN ADVANI, an investigative journalist Rajit Kapur VICKY RAI, a rich Delhi playboy Zafar Karachiwala MAMTA RAI, a politician and Vicky’s mother Radhika Mital MUNNA MOBILE, a mobile phone thief Anand Tiwari SHABNAM SAXENA, a Bollywood actress Shernaz Patel LARRY PAGE, an America tourist Gary Richardson EKETI, a tribesman Rohit Malkani ASHOK RAJPUT, a welfare officer Kenny Desai CHAMPI / DRUNK GIRL IN CAR Radhika Apte RESHMA / BARKHA DAS Anahita Uberoi RITU Ira Dubey BILAL / INSPECTOR BRAR Ankur Vikal SAIRA / RUBY GILL Megha Burman PAPPU PAGER Jaimini Pathak Chief Minister PandEy/Chief MElambe/ Abu KhalEd Jayant Kripalani DETECTIVE GUPTA, private detective. Kenny Desai ABU TECHNICAL / TRIBESMAN Pushan Kripalani ABU OMAR / BIDDY/ DRIVER Nadir Khan JAY CHATERJEE / JUDGE MISHRA Sohrab Ardeshir GULABO / MRS GILL / REPORTER Ayeesha Menon RAMAN JOHAR / BILL BAKSHI Ashwin Mushran ELIZABETH BROOKNER Karla Singh INSPECTOR YADAV Ravi Khote SOHRAB Caran Arora PRODUCTION TEAM: Line Producer in India Nadir Khan Assistant Director Toral Shah Photography Ameet Mallapur Script Editor Mike Walker Sound  Ayush Ahuja Additional Editing Steve Bond Music Sacha Putnam Sound Design Nick Russell-Pavier Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup Produced and Directed by John Dryden SIX SUSPECTS was recorded in Mumbai, India Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

All deaths are not equal. There’s a caste system – even in murder.... The debut novel of Indian diplomat, Vikas Swarup’s was made into Oscar winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. It was also turned into a rather good radio serial “Q&A”, first heard here on Radio 4. Now the team behind the Sony award-winning “Q&A” has gone to work on Swarup’s second novel – SIX SUSPECTS. Inspired by a true story, it’s a murder mystery set in modern day India… presented by investigative journalist, Arun Advani. He is following the story of Vicky Rai, a nasty trust fund baby who shoots a waitress for not serving him a drink. Across the ten episodes, Arun weaves a tale of the lives Vicky Rai has destroyed as he tries to solve the murder of a murderer. Send your questions! Questions@goldhawkproductions.org CAST: ARUN ADVANI, an investigative journalist Rajit Kapur VICKY RAI, a rich Delhi playboy Zafar Karachiwala MAMTA RAI, a politician and Vicky’s mother Radhika Mital MUNNA MOBILE, a mobile phone thief Anand Tiwari SHABNAM SAXENA, a Bollywood actress Shernaz Patel LARRY PAGE, an America tourist Gary Richardson EKETI, a tribesman Rohit Malkani ASHOK RAJPUT, a welfare officer Kenny Desai CHAMPI / DRUNK GIRL IN CAR Radhika Apte RESHMA / BARKHA DAS Anahita Uberoi RITU Ira Dubey BILAL / INSPECTOR BRAR Ankur Vikal SAIRA / RUBY GILL Megha Burman PAPPU PAGER Jaimini Pathak Chief Minister PandEy/Chief MElambe/ Abu KhalEd Jayant Kripalani DETECTIVE GUPTA, private detective. Kenny Desai ABU TECHNICAL / TRIBESMAN Pushan Kripalani ABU OMAR / BIDDY/ DRIVER Nadir Khan JAY CHATERJEE / JUDGE MISHRA Sohrab Ardeshir GULABO / MRS GILL / REPORTER Ayeesha Menon RAMAN JOHAR / BILL BAKSHI Ashwin Mushran ELIZABETH BROOKNER Karla Singh INSPECTOR YADAV Ravi Khote SOHRAB Caran Arora PRODUCTION TEAM: Line Producer in India Nadir Khan Assistant Director Toral Shah Photography Ameet Mallapur Script Editor Mike Walker Sound  Ayush Ahuja Additional Editing Steve Bond Music Sacha Putnam Sound Design Nick Russell-Pavier Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup Produced and Directed by John Dryden SIX SUSPECTS was recorded in Mumbai, India Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A man with no memory finds himself outside a flat in a tenement block in Mumbai. With no idea of who he is or how he got there he tries, with the help of a street-child, to piece together fragments of his life. A thriller from writer/director John Dryden set and recorded on the streets of Mumbai. Cast: Man - Vivek Madan Child - Faezeh Jalali Couple – Siddharth Menon and Shivani Tanksale  Neighbour – Suhaas Ahuja Nita – Prerna Chawla Homeless Woman – Ayeesha Menon Buddy - Namit Das Production: Editor  – Ayeesha Menon Producer – Preetika Chawla Production Manager - Ratnabali Bhattacharjee Written, Recorded and Directed by John Dryden Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This episode is part two of our two part special: The Chosen one. In the last episode, Prithi joined Ravi Baba’s religious commune. She was asked to give up her possessions and her phone and begin the process of abandoning who she once was; to discover her identity within the community. She had her own agenda however and snuck off to make a call on a phone she’d hidden from them. When she was caught she was taken away in the night and left in the dark.  In this episode, we find out Prithi’s purpose and her fate as she comes face to face with Ravi Baba. Cast: PRITI -  Yuki Ellias, RAVI BABA - Anand Tiwari, HONEY - Shernaz Patel, CRYSTAL - Abir Abrar, VYRAS - Vivek Madan, PRINCE - Sukant Goel Other parts: Prerna Chawla, Shikha Talsania, Nadir Khan and Chaitnya Sharma. Producer -  Nadir Khan Director - Avi Garvi Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

THE CHOSEN ONE by Avi Garvi Part 1 of 2 A thriller, set in India, inspired by real events. A young woman, Prithi, attempts to join a secretive religious commune and tries to win the trust of the groups’ leader the charismatic motorbike-loving Ravi Baba. But, as her freedoms are gradually stripped away, it becomes clear that she is not a genuine convert. Is she a police informer trying to gather evidence against the group, a journalist trying to get a scoop or does she have some other agenda?  Cast: PRITI -  Yuki Ellias, RAVI BABA - Anand Tiwari, HONEY - Shernaz Patel, CRYSTAL - Abir Abrar, VYRAS - Vivek Madan, PRINCE - Sukant Goel Other parts: Prerna Chawla, Shikha Talsania, Nadir Khan and Chaitnya Sharma. Producer -  Nadir Khan Director - Avi Garvi Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In the last episode, Alia and Ratna tracked the killer down to the college. While they were interviewing suspects there another student, Meenakshi, turned up dead on the roof. Alia worked out that the killer must have thrown her off the roof and then dragged her back up to the top so she was looking at the flag of India. And beforehand Meenakshi had been stopped from coming forward to the police by her friend Faisal. Circling on the killer's motive and MO, Alia and Ratna turn their attention to Faisal. We are planning a Q & A Episode! If you want to know more about what we do here at Mumbai Crime, now is your chance. Send any questions or comments you have to questions@goldhawkproductions.org. CAST Alia – Prerna Chawla Ratna – Shivani Tanksale Jamal  - Kenny Desai Bala – Prabal Panjabi Yamraj – Abhay Mahajan Meenakshi – Ratnabali Bhattacharjee Faisal – Prashant Prakash Mrs Gomes – Radhika Mital Senior Inspector Desai – Rajit Kapur The Hotel Manager – Joy Sengupta Principal Pandey – Sohrab Ardeshir Inspector Siddiqui – Adhir Bhat Home Minister – Satchit Puranik Dhruv – Neil Bhoopalam Shaina Patel – Preetika Chawla Ensemble – Vivek Madan & Nadir Khan PRODUCTION Sound Recordist – Ayush Ahuja Sound Design - Steve Bond Script Editor – Phillip Shelley Assistant Producer - Toral Shah Producer - Nadir Khan Music - Sacha Putnam. Writer - Ayeesha Menon Director - John Scott Dryden Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Disgraced police inspector Alia Khan is enlisted to help catch a serial killer whose preferred location for his crimes is the rooftop of the hotel where Alia is receptionist.  Teaming up with rookie Inspector Ratna Shinde, it soon becomes clear that the murderer is trying to communicate something to Alia through the victims themselves. CAST Alia – Prerna Chawla  Ratna – Shivani Tanksale Jamal  - Kenny Desai  Bala – Prabal Panjabi Yamraj – Abhay Mahajan  Meenakshi – Ratnabali Bhattacharjee  Faisal – Prashant Prakash  Mrs Gomes – Radhika Mital  Senior Inspector Desai – Rajit Kapur  The Hotel Manager – Joy Sengupta  Principal Pandey – Sohrab Ardeshir  Inspector Siddiqui – Adhir Bhat  Home Minister – Satchit Puranik  Dhruv – Neil Bhoopalam Shaina Patel – Preetika Chawla  Ensemble – Vivek Madan & Nadir Khan PRODUCTION Sound Recordist – Ayush Ahuja Sound Design - Steve Bond Script Editor – Phillip Shelley Assistant Producer - Toral Shah Producer - Nadir Khan Music - Sacha Putnam.  Writer - Ayeesha Menon Director - John Scott Dryden Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After a young girl is murdered on the rooftop of the hotel she is working in Alia can’t resist looking into it.  The police want to enlist her help officially as she is on the scent of the killer… CAST Alia – Prerna Chawla Ratna – Shivani Tanksale Jamal  - Kenny Desai Bala – Prabal Panjabi Yamraj – Abhay Mahajan Meenakshi – Ratnabali Bhattacharjee Faisal – Prashant Prakash Mrs Gomes – Radhika Mital Senior Inspector Desai – Rajit Kapur The Hotel Manager – Joy Sengupta Principal Pandey – Sohrab Ardeshir Inspector Siddiqui – Adhir Bhat Home Minister – Satchit Puranik Dhruv – Neil Bhoopalam Shaina Patel – Preetika Chawla Ensemble – Vivek Madan & Nadir Khan PRODUCTION Sound Recordist – Ayush Ahuja Sound Design - Steve Bond Script Editor – Phillip Shelley Assistant Producer - Toral Shah Producer - Nadir Khan Music - Sacha Putnam. Writer - Ayeesha Menon Director - John Scott Dryden Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This is the first episode of our second instalment of Undercover City. A series about a young female detective Alia Khan trying to do her job and find justice in a male dominated police force. If you haven’t heard the first series you can go back and listen on the feed. **Spoilers Below** In this episode, disgraced police inspector Alia Khan seeks a life of obscurity as a receptionist in a run down Mumbai hotel. But murder soon comes knocking at her door. Second series of the crime drama set and recorded on location in India. Written by Ayeesha Menon and directed by John Dryden. CAST Alia – Prerna Chawla  Ratna – Shivani Tanksale Jamal  - Kenny Desai  Bala – Prabal Panjabi Yamraj – Abhay Mahajan  Meenakshi – Ratnabali Bhattacharjee  Faisal – Prashant Prakash  Mrs Gomes – Radhika Mital  Senior Inspector Desai – Rajit Kapur  The Hotel Manager – Joy Sengupta  Principal Pandey – Sohrab Ardeshir  Inspector Siddiqui – Adhir Bhat  Home Minister – Satchit Puranik  Dhruv – Neil Bhoopalam Shaina Patel – Preetika Chawla  Ensemble – Vivek Madan & Nadir Khan PRODUCTION Sound Recordist – Ayush Ahuja Sound Design - Steve Bond Script Editor – Phillip Shelley Assistant Producer - Toral Shah Producer - Nadir Khan Music - Sacha Putnam.  Writer - Ayeesha Menon Director - John Scott Dryden Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Noose - Sapna must revisit her past to make sense of her present. But nothing can prepare her what she finds there.  Cast: Sapna – Rasika Dugal Acharya – Vijay Chrishna Karan – Neil Bhoopalam Nirmila Ben / Rosie – Radhika Mital Sapna’s Mother – Shernaz Patel Raja – Sumeet Vyas Kuldeep Singh / Roaji – Rajit Kapur Neha – Amrita Puri Priya Capoor / Pushpa / Female Judge – Ayesha Raza Badan Singh / Politician / Constable – Kenny Desai Madan – Vivek Madan Neelam / Babli – Prerna Chawla Rent Collector – Satchit Puranik Production: Sound Design - Steve Bond Editing Assistant – Varun Bangera Script Editor - Mike Walker Assistant Producer - Toral Shah Producer - Nadir Khan Music - Sacha Putnam Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel “ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE” by Vikas Swarup. Director - John Scott Dryden Mumbai Crimes is doing an audience survey! If you want to help us make more shows like this, tell us about yourselves! Go to www.survey.prx.org/crime Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices