THE CHARACTERS

APARNA ROY (played by Dipti Kaipa.)  A Bengali-Australian and a sharp-witted final-year medical student. Aparna does not suffer fools lightly though she is susceptible to intelligent charm.  She also discovers an unexpected  attraction to young men --- well, one young man at least --- who saves her from perils. 

DEBIKA ROY (played by Sumona Bhattacharja):  Aparna’s mother, and feisty when roused. She is also very committed to the value of one’s cultural heritage and the possibility of her daughter marrying a good Bengali boy.  She is particularly worried, though, about her husband.

DOCTOR SATYA ROY (played by Mouli Ganguly):  Debika’s husband and Aparna’s father.  He often seems more concerned with the rise and fall of the Hawthorn Football Club than the cultural verities of Bengal. But Satya is above all a peace-maker.  A pity then that he thinks peace will be obtained if he tells, yet again, the stories that he has told his wearied women a hundred times before.

SUSAN POMFRETT (played by Nina Nicols):  An Australian University student whose enthusiasm for just about everything can sometimes conceal the fact she is actually very bright.  Enthusiasm is her downfall, though, for she has a way of charging in where angels would fear to tread --- and then putting her foot into trouble with innocent but unerring accuracy.

CHAYAN CHOWDHURY (played by Raj Mukherjee) : A brilliant post-graduate student studying stem cells, on a scholarship in Australia. Aside from possessing a secret talent for rigorous night-club dancing, he is a deft hand at irony and dry wit, always choosing his words carefully. If one knew his mother, this trait would be totally understandable.

MADHABI CHOWDHURY (played by Aparna Bhattacharjee.) Chayan’s mother, a forceful woman to say the least. Back in Bengal, and then in Australia, after her son is physically attacked, she is rigorously determined to find the right sort of wife for her son.  In fact if she had her way she would do everything fro her beloved son --- unless he makes a courageous stand?