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Romesh Ranganathan travels the world to discover to his far-flung family.

Comedian Romesh Ranganathan embarks on ramshackle odysseys around the world to discover his eccentric extended family.

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Uncle Rubaharan introduces Romesh to the ancient Sri Lankan martial art known as angapora.

Romesh Ranganathan takes a ramshackle odyssey around Sri Lanka. Uncle Rubaharan introduces Romesh to the ancient Sri Lankan martial art known as angapora.

Comedian Romesh Ranganathan considers himself British through and through. He grew up in Horsham, doesn't speak a word of Tamil, doesn't know any of his relatives, has no idea about his cultural heritage and has almost zero desire to go to Sri Lanka. Like thousands of other British children of immigrants, he knows very little about the land where his parents came from. As his mother Shanthi says - he's a coconut. Sri Lankan on the outside but British on the inside. 

Now Shanthi wants her son to connect to his roots - so she's decided to change all that by sending Romesh on an odyssey around the motherland. Not that he's that happy about it.

Shanthi uses Romesh's trip to try to settle a long-standing bugbear - trying to get him to lose weight. She has entrusted this task to his Uncle Rubaharan, who introduces him to the ancient Sri Lankan martial art known as angapora, which sees Romesh being put through his paces by a 14-year-old martial arts expert. Whilst in the area, Romesh also visits his mother's home which has been taken over by a religious sect, but this is mere respite between having a traditional Ayurvedic enema and joining the hunter-gatherer tribe of the Veddas, to go on one of the most bizarre hunts ever witnessed.

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Romesh Ranganathan embarks on a ramshackle odyssey to discover his roots in Sri Lanka.

Comedian Romesh Ranganathan is sent by his mother on a ramshackle odyssey around his parents' homeland of Sri Lanka in an attempt to connect him with his roots.

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