";s:4:"text";s:2075:"... Bessie Carter as Violet Woodhouse and Viveik Kalra as Baadal. ITV's Head of Drama, Polly Hill, commissioned the series for ITV in the UK. Tom Bateman stars as John Beecham, a former soldier starting a new life with his family. Rebecca Eaton serves as … “That is beautiful because that is India in 1795, which is a period in time that hasn’t been seen on screen before,” Kalra explains.
It’s amazing that there are films like Crazy Rich Asians and Black Panther, which have killed it. It’s a period piece, so it would be very easy to act to the period, but a wonderful cast has been assembled with some fantastic Indian actors, some from India, some from the UK.
Viveik Kalra, Actor: Blinded by the Light. The six-part series was announced in August 2018 and was first broadcast on Sunday 23 June 2019. Created by Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Shahrukh Husain. His breakout year started earlier this summer with another project by Gurinder Chadha—previously best known as the director of Bend It Like Beckham—this time the British period drama series Beecham House.
Of course, comparisons are going be drawn between Beecham House and fellow big budget ITV drama, Downton Abbey. Beecham House is a British historical drama television series set in 1795, co-created, directed and produced by Gurinder Chadha. Viveik Kalra (right) ... Beecham House, Kalra adds, is “a very human story within that world. The series, set in Delhi before British rule, depicts the lives of the Beecham family in their newly bought house. Viveik Kalra is an actor, known for Blinded by the Light (2019), Voyagers (2020) and Beecham House (2019). BEECHAM HOUSE was originally commissioned by ITV (UK).