The Boy with the Topknot

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The Boy with the Topknot is a British television drama film adapted from Sathnam Sanghera’s memoir, exploring family, identity, and mental health within a British-Punjabi Sikh community.

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instanceOf British television drama
drama film
television film
basedOn The Boy with the Topknot self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

memoir by Sathnam Sanghera
castMember Anupam Kher
Deepti Naval
Hiten Patel
Jaz Deol
Joanna Vanderham
Kiran Sonia Sawar
Manpreet Bambra
Sacha Dhawan
character Sathnam Sanghera
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts Punjabi diaspora
surface form: British Punjabis

Sikh community in the United Kingdom
director Lynsey Miller
distributor BBC
executiveProducer Aysha Rafaele
Nicole Cauverien
Nisha Parti
Sathnam Sanghera
Tom Sherry
format feature-length single drama
genre drama
television drama
mainTheme British-Punjabi Sikh community
family
identity
mental health
medium television
narrativeFocus intergenerational family relationships
second-generation British-Indian experience
stigma around mental illness in South Asian communities
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork BBC Two
portrays arranged marriage dynamics
schizophrenia
producer Nisha Parti
productionCompany Bandit Television
Parti Productions
screenwriter Mick Ford
Sathnam Sanghera
setting West Midlands
Wolverhampton

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Sacha Dhawan appearedIn The Boy with the Topknot
The Boy with the Topknot basedOn The Boy with the Topknot self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton
Anjli Mohindra notableWork The Boy with the Topknot
Anjli Mohindra appearedIn The Boy with the Topknot