Home TV News ‘DI Ray’: ITV Sets May Premiere For Crime Thriller From Maya Sondhi & Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television Starring Parminder Nagra

‘DI Ray’: ITV Sets May Premiere For Crime Thriller From Maya Sondhi & Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television Starring Parminder Nagra

by Dave Elliott

‘DI Ray’: ITV Sets May Premiere For Crime Thriller From Maya Sondhi & Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television Starring Parminder Nagra

ITV has set a May premiere for DI Ray, a new crime thriller starring Parminder Nagra, written and created by ‘Line of Duty’ actress Maya Sondhi and produced by Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television.

Set in Birmingham, ‘DI Ray’ introduces us to Leicester-born Rachita Ray (Nagra), a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage. Rachita achieves the promotion she’s been waiting for when she’s asked to join a homicide investigation. However, on her first day she’s told the murder to which she’s been assigned is a ‘Culturally Specific Homicide.’ Rachita’s heart sinks – she suspects she’s a ‘token appointment’, chosen for her ethnicity rather than her ability.

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Rachita sticks to the case, determined to both find the killer and call out the obvious biases her colleagues are bringing to the investigation. And it’s far from easy. The case isn’t a run-of-the-mill murder; it involves delving deep into the dangerous world of organised crime. Rachita is more than up for the task, but what she didn’t count on is what this case stirs up inside her; the realisation that she’s been burying a personal identity crisis her whole life. Truth is, she’s had to work twice as hard as everyone else. It’s not that she doesn’t want to be Indian, it’s just that it would have been easier if she were white.

Parminder Nagra has appeared in a multitude of big US dramas, from ‘ER’ to ‘The Blacklist’, ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and ’13 Reasons Why’. More recently she appeared in the Sky Atlantic drama ‘Fortitude’, and the Sky Original ‘Intergalactic’. She is joined by Gemma Whelan (‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Killing Eve’), Jamie Bamber (‘Battlestar Galactica’), Maanuv Thiara (‘Landscapers’), Ian Puleston-Davies (‘Pennyworth’, ‘Tin Star’) and Ryan McKen (‘Line Of Duty’, ‘Game Of Thrones’).

The four-part drama is written and created by writer and actress Maya Sondhi, who starred as Maneet Bindra in ‘Line of Duty’. Her other writing credits include ‘EastEnders’, ‘Ackley Bridge’, and ‘Mount Pleasant’. It is produced by HTM Television, an independent production company co-owned by ‘Line Of Duty’s Jed Mercurio and Hat Trick Managing Director Jimmy Mulville.

DI Ray‘ Season 1 premieres Monday, 2nd May 2022 at 9pm on ITV, and will on 4 consecutive nights over the week.

https://vimeo.com/701204789

You may also like

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments