Compulsion with Parminder Nagra on ITV1
A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man consumed by obsession. Are they the key to each other’s salvation or destruction?
Ray Winstone (Vincent, Beowulf, Indiana Jones IV) and Parminder Nagra (ER, Bend It Like Beckham) star in Compulsion, a tragic story of desire and lust for ITV1.
Anjika Indrani (Nagra) is a modern girl with the world at her feet. Having just finished her degree at Cambridge and in a happy relationship with fellow graduate Alex, she returns in triumph for a lavish celebratory party at the home of her rich Indian industrialist father.
However Anjika feels like her life has ended when her father, Satvik (Vincent Ebrahim) announces that he intends for Anjika to marry Hardik, the son of a business associate. Anjika rails against the unfairness of it – her feckless, party-going brother Jaiman (James Floyd) is allowed to do whatever he wants so why can’t she?
Help is offered from an unlikely corner. Don Flowers (Winstone) is Satvik’s chauffeur, bagman and general factotum. Anjika has always mistrusted and despised Flowers, so is dismissive when he offers to solve her problem for her especially when she hears the price… Flowers wants to spend a night with her.
What if it’s her only way out? After all, it’s just sex, it won’t mean anything… Anjika and Flowers embark on a dark and obsessive sexual relationship. Through Flowers she has found a new sexual awakening, and now nothing in her “ordinary” life seems the same.
ITV Controller of Drama Commissioning Sally Haynes says: “This is a modern and innovative take on a classic piece of literature, transposed to a wealthy and glamorous world.
“It is atmospheric and sumptuous and we are very excited to be bringing Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra together on ITV for the first time in such a unique project.”
Compulsion airs on ITV1 tonight at 9PM
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hi i have jst watched your programme and am not happy with you being a sikh and doing films like this,i truly belive my religon as a sikh,and am a single mother to my 2 girls and trying to make sure they dont make mistakes in life this, but uyou doing scenes like this is not going to help.
I am sorry to say but you will never find a muslim girl doing scenes like this as she has respect for her family and friends,but as for you, you have not left us sikhs a respect that we derserve as people will now thing that sikh girls are easy to take advangte of,you might not like what i am saying but im sorry but this is how i feel and had respect for you after watching bend it lik beckham but after waching this i dont,there was a sikh girl doing a show in birmingham once and it did not go through becuse the sikhs had protested against it so i dont see why u can do this and hold your head up
Disgusting story line..I don knw what director was trying to convince? Absolutely stressful and embarrassing film, made me sick for a while.
I am surprised by the previous responses which are based on assumptions that not everyone shares – not everyone thinks sex or nudity is disgusting or wrong, but that it is natural and most people do it. This view that girls should not have sex is ridiculous – how does the race continue? As for the misuse of the word respect, how does that even come into the picture, Parminder is an ACTOR doing her job to tell a story. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and was glued to it from start to finish. I think Parminder and Ray Winstone built up their characters very well and the tension was very well developed.
I loved watching this drama. Being an Indian women I did find some of the scenes shocking, but Parminder played a great role. It was so instense, I was glued to the tv.
I just hope I see more of Parminder in daring roles like this. Great Job!
I agree with Danny, The amount of sex and nudity was unnecessary, sometimes you just have to leave it to the imagination,perhaps she, Anjika, should have been shown entering the bedroom where Flowers was waiting for her and the door shuts, next scene, her getting dressed or something, etc… this was almost like watching a porn film!!!! I used to think Parminder was great until this, and Polly its not about ‘girls aint allowed to have sex’, its just that it was too graphic, they never show a man’s privates but all too willing to exploit women.. baring breasts etc. It was just too much sex that the storyline kind of dissolved in the background. I just wish someone from the showbiz world didnt use their body to climb the fame ladder.
It was boring
I ejoyed it get over yourselves you sound about 80. It kept me watching good acting and excellent drama.
This was another typical “Asian female victim” drama. The stereotyping which has been going on since time began. On this occassion it was the “Loser Channel of the Year” ITV that decided to take another stab, thinking that this represents all Asian households in modern Britain. No wonder the channel is going down the pan!
Ray Winstone? Yes well, for an actor who could have turned himself into a Hollywood legend…tacky commercial voiceovers and ITV dramas have become his staple diet. Poor old Parminder…we know that you have lived in Keira Knightley’s shadow for so long…and if it wasn’t bad enough to see you get “jiggy” with Danny Dyer (C4 “Second Generation”) it was even more stomach churning for you to be doing it with old man Winstone. By the way the pic in the Metro the other day was just as bad!
We all know you prefer White and Black Men (reference “ER”) over the backwardly perceived Asian man. Good for you! But please don’t make a political staement out of it…you’re not the first Asian girl to have achieved this feat!
Why was the character of Hardik portrayed as a druggy?? Couldn’t he have been just an average Asian chump who got lumbered into an arranged marriage by his narrow minded parents? Did the Anjika character need such an extreme excuse not to marry him??
The ending was probably the most unrealistic piece of work I have ever seen. Girl gets allegedly raped and kills her “so-called” attacker. Blood everywhere, Police Investigations? No Forensic Teams? No Counselling? No Court Case? No Where were they all?? Next you see little ugly asian girl getting into a chauffeur driven car with her unsuspecting new white shiny husband!
Keep up the good work ITV. Who knows you might finally be off the air by Xmas!
Parminder did not get her boobs out sadly too say. so why is everyone saying she went nude?? i just watched it on itv player in anticipation of her getting her norks out and nothing!!! waste of my 2 hours man!!
As an Asian women she should have pride in the fact that her culture/religion allows her to maintain her self- respect without having to sexually objectify herself to get noticed… but as Sam pointed out, she played the ‘Asian female victim’ card, to add to that she portrayed herself (as an Asian women) to be so easy, that she would contentedly romp with ‘old man Winstone’. Just low! By the time I got over the traumatising effect of the Winstone-Parminder scenes, I forgot the story plot.
Crap drama, crap actors