Dreams
Documentary following the hopes and ambitions of workers on Bombay's vast railway network, including Mumtaz Kazi, Indian Railways' first fully qualified female train driver.
India is undergoing unprecedented growth and Bombay is its financial powerhouse. The city promotes itself as a positive vision of the future, a place where dreams can come true. Like an extended family, the Bombay railway provides an unfailing lifeline to the city. This series follows the hope and dreams of some the people who work for the railway.
Hans Dev Sharma is a senior operations clerk. He works in the timetabling department, which schedules over 2,000 trains a day - under its cultural quota, Hans was talent-spotted as an exceptional actor and dancer and the railways offered him a job. Hans is living the Bollywood dream, with Bombay Railways as his life and his stage. But will he get his big break?
Jagdish Paul Raj was born in Bombay and is as ambitious as the city he lives in. The son of a railway catering officer, Jagdish, like his father, always had an interest in food but none in the railway. He graduated in politics and economics and became a fully qualified chef. Now 31, he is running a successful catering business on the train to Goa. He is tendered for more trains, but will he be successful?
Mumtaz Kazi is Indian Railways' first fully qualified female train driver and has driven trains all over India. Mumtaz was brought up in a traditional Muslim family - a railway family. Now her father has retired and her immediate family live in Canada - Mumtaz is the only member left in Bombay. It will be Mumtaz's responsibility to find a wife for her brother, to get him married and back to Canada in just eight weeks. Can she do it and still drive the train?
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Gerry Troyna |
Director | Gerry Troyna |
Broadcasts
- Thu 19 Jul 2007 21:00
- Fri 20 Jul 2007 00:00
- Fri 20 Jul 2007 02:00
- Sun 5 Aug 2007 23:00
- Mon 6 Aug 2007 03:15
- Mon 10 Sep 2007 20:00
- Tue 11 Sep 2007 01:20
- Thu 6 Dec 2007 21:00
- Fri 7 Dec 2007 01:30
- Sun 8 Jun 2008 19:00
- Tue 4 Nov 2008 00:00
- Sat 13 Feb 2010 20:00
- Sun 14 Feb 2010 03:10
- Thu 6 May 2010 19:0091热爆 Two Northern Ireland & England only
- Tue 18 May 2010 23:2091热爆 Two Wales
- Fri 31 Dec 2010 09:0591热爆 Two except East, Wales (Analogue) & Yorkshire
- Tue 27 Mar 2012 20:00
- Tue 27 Mar 2012 23:40
- Sun 24 Mar 2013 20:00
- Mon 10 Mar 2014 20:00
- Wed 3 Dec 2014 20:00
- Mon 6 Apr 2015 21:00
- Tue 7 Apr 2015 01:25
- Wed 8 Apr 2015 22:30
- Thu 25 Feb 2016 20:00
- Tue 7 Feb 2017 23:00
- Thu 3 May 2018 00:00
- Thu 21 Mar 2024 19:00
- Fri 22 Mar 2024 00:50