Murdered by My Father

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Murdered by My Father
GenreDrama
Created by Vinay Patel
Written by Vinay Patel
Directed byBruce Goodison
Starring
Composer
  • Samuel Sim
Country of origin
  • United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
  • Damian Kavanagh
  • Aysha Rafaele
ProducerToby Welch
CinematographyFelix Wiedemann
EditorJosh Cunliffe
Running time75 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC Three
Release29 March 2016 (2016-03-29)

Murdered by My Father is a British drama television film written by Vinay Patel, directed by Bruce Goodison and produced by Toby Welch, and starring Adeel Akhtar and Kiran Sonia Sawar, that first aired on BBC One in March 2016. The drama tells the story of an honour killing of a British Asian Muslim teenage girl by her father. [1] [2] [3]

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For his performance in the film, Akhtar won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. [4] The film itself won Best Single Drama at the Royal Television Society Awards in 2017. [5]

Summary

Widowed father Shahzad is bringing up two children, daughter Salma and son Hassan, alone. Teenager Salma has been promised to Haroon in an arranged marriage but she falls in love with Imi. Following a confrontation with Haroon and with men from their community, Shahzad murders his daughter and kills himself. [6]

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Critical reception

Ceri Redford, writing in The Daily Telegraph , described the drama as "nuanced and unbearably heart-breaking" and "a brave piece of television". [7] Kasia Delgado, in the Radio Times, wrote that the drama "deserves a Bafta [award] for depicting this very real issue so brilliantly". [8]

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