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Drama: A Fine Balance

Shernaz Patel

Kenneth Desai

Anand Tiwari

Neil Bhoopalam

Zafar Karachiwala

Rajit Kapur

Jayant Kripalani

Darshan Jariwala

Farid Currim

Anahita Uberoi

Vivek Madan

Tirtha Kotrial

Eshan Savla

Samar Uraizee

Jim Sarbh

Abhishek Saha

Meherangiz Acharya-Dar

Faezeh Jalali

Shivani Tanksale

Nadir Khan

Rohinton Mistry

Ayeesha Menon

Kewel Karim

John Dryden

Drama on 4: A Fine Balance: Episode 2

A Fine Balance

Episode 2

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Four strangers form a bond that takes them through one of India's most turbulent periods.

Four strangers form an unlikely bond that takes them through one of India's most turbulent recent periods. A story of the triumph of the human spirit under inhuman conditions.

Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about India's underclass.

Uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om have come to the city to escape the caste violence in their native village. They start working as tailors in the cramped flat of Dina, a middle-aged Parsi widow. Maneck, a reluctant student from the mountains, rents a room from Dina and the four strangers form an unlikely bond against a backdrop of India in crisis - during "the Emergency" of the mid-1970s, a period marked by huge political unrest and human rights violations.

A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human spirit under inhuman conditions.

Music: Sacha Putnam
Sound Design: Steve Bond

Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel by Rohinton Mistry

Producer: Nadir Khan
Director: John Dryden

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4.

Drama on 4: A Fine Balance

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Rohinton Mistry's life-changing novel about India's underclass.

By Rohinton Mistry. Four strangers form an unlikely bond that takes them through one of India's most turbulent recent periods. Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim.

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