Murdered by My Father

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]

Murdered by My Father
Genre	Drama
Created by	Vinay Patel
Written by	Vinay Patel
Directed by	Bruce Goodison
Starring	Adeel Akhtar Kiran Sonia Sawar Mawaan Rizwan Salman Akhtar Reiss Jeram
Composer	Samuel Sim
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Damian Kavanagh Aysha Rafaele
Producer	Toby Welch
Cinematography	Felix Wiedemann
Editor	Josh Cunliffe
Running time	75 minutes
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC Three
Release	29 March 2016 (2016-03-29)

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]

Cast

• Adeel Akhtar as Shahzad
• Kiran Sonia Sawar as Salma
• Mawaan Rizwan as Imi
• Salman Akhtar as Haroon
• Reiss Jeram as Hassan

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]