Vinay Patel

Vinay Patel FRSL (born 1986) is a British-Indian screenwriter and playwright. He is best known for writing the BBC drama Murdered by My Father.

Career

Before writing, Patel worked as a corporate filmmaker and then a technician at the London-based Met Film School.[1]

In 2011, Patel graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama with an MA in writing. In 2014, he wrote True Brits, a play juxtaposing the news of the London 2012 Olympics, with the 7 July 2005 London bombings. This led to his selection for the Bush/Kudos TV writing scheme and an original short commission for BBC iPlayer. In 2018, he wrote An Adventure, inspired by his grandparents, for the Bush Theatre.[2][3]

In June 2018, Patel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.[4]

Television

In 2016, he wrote BBC One’s honour killing drama Murdered By My Father. It tells of an honour killing of a British Asian Muslim teenage girl, Salma (played by Kiran Sonia Sawar), by her father Shahzad (Adeel Akhtar).[5] It was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for best single drama, and won the RTS Award for Best Single Drama.[6] He has also written for the first series of The Good Karma Hospital and, in 2018, contributed the sixth episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who, Demons of the Punjab, set during the Partition of India.[7][8]

The episode received high praise from fans and critics alike, and was announced as a finalist (nominee) in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the 2019 Hugo Awards.[9] At the Eastern Eye Arts, Theater, and Culture Awards, Patel won "Best Scriptwriter" for Demons of the Punjab.[6]

Patel returned to Doctor Who, co-writing the fifth episode, "Fugitive of the Judoon" with Chris Chibnall, for the twelfth series.[10] Jo Martin appears as a character named Ruth Clayton,[11][10] later revealed to be a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor. Martin is credited as Ruth and with an "introducing" credit as the Doctor, as previous new incarnations of the character have been since 2005.[12] The episode featured the return of Jack Harkness played by John Barrowman, after a ten-year absence from the series. Barrowman's appearance was not publicised prior to broadcast.[12]

References
  1. "Breakthrough Brits: Vinay Patel, Writer". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  2. Natasha Tripney (11 September 2018). "Playwright Vinay Patel: 'Putting on the play is not enough – it's who you get in the room'". The Stage. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  3. Bridget Minamore (26 July 2018). "Vinay Patel: 'I think people having their power dismantled is good'". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  4. Flood, Alison (2018-06-28). "Royal Society of Literature admits 40 new fellows to address historical biases". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  5. Gavin Collinson (4 April 2016). "Murdered By My Father: Interview with Writer Vinay Patel". BBC Writers Room. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  6. "Vinay Patel". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  7. Andrea Laford (15 October 2018). "Doctor Who Series 11: episodes 5 and 6 titles, synopses, photos". Cultbox. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  8. Gayle Sequeira (17 November 2018). "Doctor Who's Newest Episode Is A Compelling Look At Partition-Era India". Film Companion. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  9. unknown, Cheryl (2 April 2019). "2019 Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists". thehugoawards.org. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  10. Laford, Andrea (9 January 2020). "Doctor Who Series 12: new episode titles, writers and descriptions". Cult Box. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  11. "Doctor Who films scenes in Gloucester". BBC News.
  12. Hogan, Michael (26 January 2020). "Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Judoon, recap: the best episode of the series, with surprise returns and killer twists". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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