Portraying Indians’ lives on TV as equally important as white lives is “a flipping radical thing”, the director of ITV’s new Sunday night drama, Beecham House, has said.
Bend it like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s new six-part series tells the story of how India became part of the British empire.
“If I want to change one thing, it’s like: ‘How will that affect that bloody scene in episode six?’
But Chadha says multicultural casting comes easy to her because her teams are diverse from the inside out.