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The episode further expanded on [[Yasmin Khan]]'s family and heritage, exploring her grandmother [[Umbreen]]'s personal history in [[India]] during its [[Partition of India|partition]] in [[1947]]. | The episode further expanded on [[Yasmin Khan]]'s family and heritage, exploring her grandmother [[Umbreen]]'s personal history in [[India]] during its [[Partition of India|partition]] in [[1947]]. | ||
Much like ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'' before it, this story about the past has very little science fiction involved; thus keeping the story very straightforward about Umbreen's past. | |||
This episode reintroduces the theme of the Doctor being mistaken about the intentions of aliens involved with death. Much like ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] believed the aliens intended to kill, but were in fact non-hostile. The [[Thijarian]]s were not killing, but instead bearing witness. | This episode reintroduces the theme of the Doctor being mistaken about the intentions of aliens involved with death. Much like ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] believed the aliens intended to kill, but were in fact non-hostile. The [[Thijarian]]s were not killing, but instead bearing witness. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[Yasmin Khan]] is in [[Flat 34 (Park Hill)|her family's flat]] with her family, celebrating her nani [[Umbreen]]'s birthday. Umbreen | [[File:Yaz's grandad.jpg|left|thumb|180x180px|Umbreen looks at an old photo of her husband.]] | ||
[[Yasmin Khan]] is in [[Flat 34 (Park Hill)|her family's flat]] with her family, celebrating her nani [[Umbreen]]'s birthday. When her deceased husband is brought up, Umrbeen looks at a photo of him and herself; she misses him. She adds that she was the first woman married in [[Pakistan]] and was the first [[Muslim]] woman to work in a textile factory in Sheffield. Now she needs a wheelchair to get around. Yaz adds that her granfather always took Umbreen out dancing on Wednesdays. | |||
Umbreen gives her daughter and granddaughters a gift each. To Najia, she gives letters sent by her father to Umbreen; she jokes to ignore the "filthy bits" of the letters. To Sonya, Umbreen gives a preserved flower; she then adds that she doesn't know why her husband preserved it for her. To her favorite granddaughter Yasmin she gives a broken [[watch]], warning her never to fix it. Yaz asks her nani if her grandfather gave her the watch. However, Umbreen is unwilling to speak more about it. Yaz asks her to talk, so they can learn more about their heritage. Umbreen simply says she can tell her one day. Yaz looks disappointed, but then gets an idea... | |||
Later, in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. | |||
The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] is doing maintenance on the controls, while [[Graham O'Brien|Graham]] and [[Ryan Sinclair|Ryan]] rest against one of the crystal pillars. Yaz has asked the Doctor to take her into Umbreen's past; however, she tells Yaz that [[Father's Day (TV story)|time travel and families are tricky business]]. Yaz begs to go back for just an hour to see Umbreen from a distance, saying what's the point of having a friend with a time machine if you can't go back and see your relatives in their youth. The Doctor asks if Yaz has a time or place; Yaz tells her that Umbreen was in [[Lahore]] in the 1950s. However, the Doctor changes her mind; telling her that going into the past risks accidentally erasing Yaz from existence. Graham laughs that it's not like they take risks. The Doctor tells him in annoyed tone that she has apologized repeatedly for the incident involving the [[Death Eye Turtle Army]]. | |||
Despite trying to talk herself out of it once more, the Doctor relents and takes the watch from Yaz; she's attaching it to the telepathic circuits, allowing them to find the moment that it broke in Umbreen's timeline. Graham wonders how the TARDIS can be telepathic; the Doctor says that 'telepathic" is short-hand for a very complicated procedure, which is locating where anything has existed throughout the entirely of space-time. Graham, seeming to have understood, thanks the Doctor for explaining it clearly. The Doctor asks if everyone is okay with this trip; Graham quips that he has no problem so long as there's no turtles, plus its another trip off the bucket list. Ryan agrees. As she pulls the lever, the Doctor reminds everyone that they must not... "interfere" they all finish for her. | |||
The TARDIS arrives in a forested area instead of Lahore, much to the confusion of Yaz, Ryan and Graham. The Doctor takes out her sonic screwdriver and starts to get TARDIS readings from all around the area. Suddenly, they are struck by some sort of vision of dark figures, and stumble into a road. There they meet [[Prem]], who is driving an [[ox]]-pulled [[cart]]. They claim to be family friends, and are offered a lift. They are spotted by a [[sadhu]], Hindu holy man known as [[Bhakti]], who pokes fun at youthful people for not walking.; he promises Prem that he will arrive shortly. Unseen by everyone, two shadowy figures are watching from above. | |||
They arrive at Umbreen's home, where Yaz nearly blunders in introducing herself; she passes herself off as a distant relative, who's come to visit. She then learns that Umbreen is to be married the next day, but to Prem; this confuses Yaz as he's not her grandfather. Prem's brother Manish walks off with some supplies; Yaz offers to help him and follows. Upon seeing Umbreen. Prem and Umbreen's mother go inside upon hearing the radio, the Doctor, Graham and Ryan decide to find out what the news is. Upon hearing the news, Graham asks for the year; Prem tells him 1947. The Doctor goes blank faced; its the [[Partition of India]], where all the faiths are divided between the countries of [[Pakistan]] and [[India]]. | |||
At a river, Yaz has unknowingly helped Manish set up a small fence that signifies the boundary. The Doctor, Graham, Ryan, Prem, Umbreen and Umbreen's mother arrive shortly afterwards. The Doctor catches Yaz up on what's happening, while Manish reveals that he's sided with the people who believe separating Muslim and Indian people is for the best. Prem scolds his brother, along with Umbreen, as people can live where they wish. However, Umbreen's mother catches sight of two "demons" near by; they vanish. The Doctor and her companions give chase, with Prem following. | |||
They find the "demons" in a forest, over the body of Bhakti; the "demons" telepathically force their words into their heads, telling them not to interfere. Prem fires a shot from his rifle, but the "demons" teleport away before they can be harmed. The Doctor notes that Prem is not surprised by their appearance; he admits that he saw them once before. Knowing they can't leave Bhakti's body there, the Doctor tells Graham and Yaz to return and vaguely tell of Bhakti's passing, so they can bury him. In the meantime, she, Ryan and Prem will look for the "demons". | |||
Scanning the forest with [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|the sonic]], the Doctor homes in on a transmat "doorway", which she activates by accident. It transports them into a spaceship, which is currently empty. The Doctor scans the available control device and reveals an image of Bhakti, confirming he was a target. She manages to pull up more data, which turns her smile to a grim frown. This ship is a [[Thijarian Hive]]; the [[Thijarian]]s are [[assassin]]s, the most deadly the universe has ever known. Prem reveals the last time he saw them was during the second world war; he found them over the body of his dead brother Kunal. The Doctor's meddling with the controls causes a container to rise out of the controls; she pulls it out, setting off an alarm. Then the Thijarians appear and they are forced to evacuate the hive. Out in the forest, Ryan and Prem are transported away and the Doctor notices a device on a tree nearby, a [[transmat lock]], and confiscates it. | |||
Ryan and Prem appear some distance away and Prem asks what happened. Ryan says he does not know, but the Doctor said to get out of the forest so they both run. The Doctor continues to find more locks. Back at the farm, Umbreen continues to argue in favour of her marriage. | Ryan and Prem appear some distance away and Prem asks what happened. Ryan says he does not know, but the Doctor said to get out of the forest so they both run. The Doctor continues to find more locks. Back at the farm, Umbreen continues to argue in favour of her marriage. Yaz becomes discouraged when she believes she doesn't truly know her nani, and Graham comforts her. Suddenly, they hear Ryan yelling and rush to discover what is wrong. The Doctor arrives shortly after and tell them to run for the barn. Inside the barn the Thijarians arrive and threaten everyone there with [[death]], but the Doctor drives them away with the locks. She promises to protect them all; she's only bought half a day, so Umbreen decides to prepare for the wedding in the time they have. | ||
In the barn, the Doctor attempts to scan the contents of the mysterious container; however, there's too many different components in it. The sonic is overloaded and fails. Deciding she needs to go "basic" and do this "chem lab style", the Doctor requests [[oil]], [[tree bark]], 9 [[sauce pan]]s, [[ox]] [[saliva|spit]], a [[biscuit]], and a [[chicken]] [[faeces|poo]]. Graham asks about the biscuit, to which the Doctor says she likes them. Later, she has set up a lab and the analysis is on the way. An annoyed Graham tells the Doctor that he is NEVER getting ox spit for her again; Ryan laughs its because the ox took a shine to him. Umbreen enters and questions the lab, to which the Doctor passes off as "demon repellant". Umbreen tells the boys to spend the night with Prem and Manish, while the Doctor and Yaz stay with her and her mother. | |||
Umbreen | Umbreen, the Doctor, Yaz and Umbreen's mum sit and speak together. Umbreen says she'll go through with the [[wedding]], and her mother adamantly protests; they need someone respectable to officiate. Umbreen is initially dismissive of such traditions due to the changing times, but remembers the Doctor; she asks her to officiate the wedding, as a doctor is a respectable position. The Doctor agrees, claiming she hadn't officiated a wedding since [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s and that his mother disapproved, and that the wedding was non-denominational. Elsewhere, Ryan, Graham, Prem, and Manish are playing [[playing card|cards]]. Manish appears to be winning. He argues with his brother, asking Prem not to go through with the wedding. | ||
In the barn, the Doctor is studying some material recovered from the hive and notes it is some of the densest organic material she has ever seen, and it contains [[carbon]], [[phosphorous]], [[oxygen]] and [[sulfur]], creating billions of [[DNA]] fragments. Suddenly she is transmatted away to the Hive. There she learns that the Thijarian world was destroyed in the assassin's absence. They claim to have become witnesses, and spent 100 generations honouring their [[Thijar|lost world]]. Now they travel to witness and honor those left dead, unseen and unknown, in the wake of the Partition. Now they come to honor Prem. She asks to see how the holy man died, and they show her. | In the barn, the Doctor is studying some material recovered from the hive and notes it is some of the densest organic material she has ever seen, and it contains [[carbon]], [[phosphorous]], [[oxygen]] and [[sulfur]], creating billions of [[DNA]] fragments. Suddenly she is transmatted away to the Hive along with the container. There she learns that the Thijarian world was destroyed in the assassin's absence. They claim to have become witnesses, and spent 100 generations honouring their [[Thijar|lost world]]. The Doctor apooigisze, having not known she was desecrating the memory of their home. Now they travel to witness and honor those left dead, unseen and unknown, in the wake of the Partition. Now they come to honor Prem. She asks to see how the holy man died, and they show her. | ||
The Doctor returns to reveal that Prem must die today, and that the Thijarians are not actually assassins but merely observers to those who are killed. She warns that they cannot interfere, or Umbreen will never become Yaz's nani. | Yaz, Graham and Ryan wait worriedly in the barn. The Doctor returns to reveal that Prem must die today, and that the Thijarians are not actually assassins but merely observers to those who are killed. She warns that they cannot interfere, or Umbreen will never become Yaz's nani. | ||
In the morning, Ryan and Graham help Prem prepare for his wedding day. He mourns that so many around him seem to have lost their minds. [[Muslim]]s, [[Hindu]] and [[Sikh]]s, who lived together for decades are now in a frenzy, convinced their differences are more important than what unites them. Graham comforts him, saying the best they can be is good men. | In the morning, Ryan and Graham help Prem prepare for his wedding day. He mourns that so many around him seem to have lost their minds. [[Muslim]]s, [[Hindu]] and [[Sikh]]s, who lived together for decades are now in a frenzy, convinced their differences are more important than what unites them. Graham comforts him, saying the best they can be is good men. | ||
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* While participating in the pre-[[wedding]] celebrations, the Doctor muses that she never used to do this kind of thing when she was a [[man]], a reference to her previous thirteen male [[incarnation]]s. | * While participating in the pre-[[wedding]] celebrations, the Doctor muses that she never used to do this kind of thing when she was a [[man]], a reference to her previous thirteen male [[incarnation]]s. | ||
* The Doctor can officiate weddings, having previously officiated [[Albert Einstein]]'s. | * The Doctor can officiate weddings, having previously officiated [[Albert Einstein]]'s. | ||
* The Doctor considers [[love]] her "[[religion]]". | |||
=== Culture === | === Culture === | ||
Revision as of 21:48, 16 November 2018
Demons of the Punjab was the sixth episode in the eleventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.
The episode further expanded on Yasmin Khan's family and heritage, exploring her grandmother Umbreen's personal history in India during its partition in 1947.
Much like Rosa before it, this story about the past has very little science fiction involved; thus keeping the story very straightforward about Umbreen's past.
This episode reintroduces the theme of the Doctor being mistaken about the intentions of aliens involved with death. Much like Twice Upon a Time, the Thirteenth Doctor believed the aliens intended to kill, but were in fact non-hostile. The Thijarians were not killing, but instead bearing witness.
This episode also had the Doctor explain more about the specific details of how the telepathic circuits worked.
Synopsis
With Yaz desperate to learn more about the life of her grandmother, the Thirteenth Doctor brings her friends to the Punjab in 1947 to meet her in the past. But with a marriage unknown to Yaz on the cards and the Partition of India threatening to pull her family apart, it may not be the mysterious "demons" that are the biggest threat.
Plot
Yasmin Khan is in her family's flat with her family, celebrating her nani Umbreen's birthday. When her deceased husband is brought up, Umrbeen looks at a photo of him and herself; she misses him. She adds that she was the first woman married in Pakistan and was the first Muslim woman to work in a textile factory in Sheffield. Now she needs a wheelchair to get around. Yaz adds that her granfather always took Umbreen out dancing on Wednesdays.
Umbreen gives her daughter and granddaughters a gift each. To Najia, she gives letters sent by her father to Umbreen; she jokes to ignore the "filthy bits" of the letters. To Sonya, Umbreen gives a preserved flower; she then adds that she doesn't know why her husband preserved it for her. To her favorite granddaughter Yasmin she gives a broken watch, warning her never to fix it. Yaz asks her nani if her grandfather gave her the watch. However, Umbreen is unwilling to speak more about it. Yaz asks her to talk, so they can learn more about their heritage. Umbreen simply says she can tell her one day. Yaz looks disappointed, but then gets an idea...
Later, in the TARDIS.
The Thirteenth Doctor is doing maintenance on the controls, while Graham and Ryan rest against one of the crystal pillars. Yaz has asked the Doctor to take her into Umbreen's past; however, she tells Yaz that time travel and families are tricky business. Yaz begs to go back for just an hour to see Umbreen from a distance, saying what's the point of having a friend with a time machine if you can't go back and see your relatives in their youth. The Doctor asks if Yaz has a time or place; Yaz tells her that Umbreen was in Lahore in the 1950s. However, the Doctor changes her mind; telling her that going into the past risks accidentally erasing Yaz from existence. Graham laughs that it's not like they take risks. The Doctor tells him in annoyed tone that she has apologized repeatedly for the incident involving the Death Eye Turtle Army.
Despite trying to talk herself out of it once more, the Doctor relents and takes the watch from Yaz; she's attaching it to the telepathic circuits, allowing them to find the moment that it broke in Umbreen's timeline. Graham wonders how the TARDIS can be telepathic; the Doctor says that 'telepathic" is short-hand for a very complicated procedure, which is locating where anything has existed throughout the entirely of space-time. Graham, seeming to have understood, thanks the Doctor for explaining it clearly. The Doctor asks if everyone is okay with this trip; Graham quips that he has no problem so long as there's no turtles, plus its another trip off the bucket list. Ryan agrees. As she pulls the lever, the Doctor reminds everyone that they must not... "interfere" they all finish for her.
The TARDIS arrives in a forested area instead of Lahore, much to the confusion of Yaz, Ryan and Graham. The Doctor takes out her sonic screwdriver and starts to get TARDIS readings from all around the area. Suddenly, they are struck by some sort of vision of dark figures, and stumble into a road. There they meet Prem, who is driving an ox-pulled cart. They claim to be family friends, and are offered a lift. They are spotted by a sadhu, Hindu holy man known as Bhakti, who pokes fun at youthful people for not walking.; he promises Prem that he will arrive shortly. Unseen by everyone, two shadowy figures are watching from above.
They arrive at Umbreen's home, where Yaz nearly blunders in introducing herself; she passes herself off as a distant relative, who's come to visit. She then learns that Umbreen is to be married the next day, but to Prem; this confuses Yaz as he's not her grandfather. Prem's brother Manish walks off with some supplies; Yaz offers to help him and follows. Upon seeing Umbreen. Prem and Umbreen's mother go inside upon hearing the radio, the Doctor, Graham and Ryan decide to find out what the news is. Upon hearing the news, Graham asks for the year; Prem tells him 1947. The Doctor goes blank faced; its the Partition of India, where all the faiths are divided between the countries of Pakistan and India.
At a river, Yaz has unknowingly helped Manish set up a small fence that signifies the boundary. The Doctor, Graham, Ryan, Prem, Umbreen and Umbreen's mother arrive shortly afterwards. The Doctor catches Yaz up on what's happening, while Manish reveals that he's sided with the people who believe separating Muslim and Indian people is for the best. Prem scolds his brother, along with Umbreen, as people can live where they wish. However, Umbreen's mother catches sight of two "demons" near by; they vanish. The Doctor and her companions give chase, with Prem following.
They find the "demons" in a forest, over the body of Bhakti; the "demons" telepathically force their words into their heads, telling them not to interfere. Prem fires a shot from his rifle, but the "demons" teleport away before they can be harmed. The Doctor notes that Prem is not surprised by their appearance; he admits that he saw them once before. Knowing they can't leave Bhakti's body there, the Doctor tells Graham and Yaz to return and vaguely tell of Bhakti's passing, so they can bury him. In the meantime, she, Ryan and Prem will look for the "demons".
Scanning the forest with the sonic, the Doctor homes in on a transmat "doorway", which she activates by accident. It transports them into a spaceship, which is currently empty. The Doctor scans the available control device and reveals an image of Bhakti, confirming he was a target. She manages to pull up more data, which turns her smile to a grim frown. This ship is a Thijarian Hive; the Thijarians are assassins, the most deadly the universe has ever known. Prem reveals the last time he saw them was during the second world war; he found them over the body of his dead brother Kunal. The Doctor's meddling with the controls causes a container to rise out of the controls; she pulls it out, setting off an alarm. Then the Thijarians appear and they are forced to evacuate the hive. Out in the forest, Ryan and Prem are transported away and the Doctor notices a device on a tree nearby, a transmat lock, and confiscates it.
Ryan and Prem appear some distance away and Prem asks what happened. Ryan says he does not know, but the Doctor said to get out of the forest so they both run. The Doctor continues to find more locks. Back at the farm, Umbreen continues to argue in favour of her marriage. Yaz becomes discouraged when she believes she doesn't truly know her nani, and Graham comforts her. Suddenly, they hear Ryan yelling and rush to discover what is wrong. The Doctor arrives shortly after and tell them to run for the barn. Inside the barn the Thijarians arrive and threaten everyone there with death, but the Doctor drives them away with the locks. She promises to protect them all; she's only bought half a day, so Umbreen decides to prepare for the wedding in the time they have.
In the barn, the Doctor attempts to scan the contents of the mysterious container; however, there's too many different components in it. The sonic is overloaded and fails. Deciding she needs to go "basic" and do this "chem lab style", the Doctor requests oil, tree bark, 9 sauce pans, ox spit, a biscuit, and a chicken poo. Graham asks about the biscuit, to which the Doctor says she likes them. Later, she has set up a lab and the analysis is on the way. An annoyed Graham tells the Doctor that he is NEVER getting ox spit for her again; Ryan laughs its because the ox took a shine to him. Umbreen enters and questions the lab, to which the Doctor passes off as "demon repellant". Umbreen tells the boys to spend the night with Prem and Manish, while the Doctor and Yaz stay with her and her mother.
Umbreen, the Doctor, Yaz and Umbreen's mum sit and speak together. Umbreen says she'll go through with the wedding, and her mother adamantly protests; they need someone respectable to officiate. Umbreen is initially dismissive of such traditions due to the changing times, but remembers the Doctor; she asks her to officiate the wedding, as a doctor is a respectable position. The Doctor agrees, claiming she hadn't officiated a wedding since Einstein's and that his mother disapproved, and that the wedding was non-denominational. Elsewhere, Ryan, Graham, Prem, and Manish are playing cards. Manish appears to be winning. He argues with his brother, asking Prem not to go through with the wedding.
In the barn, the Doctor is studying some material recovered from the hive and notes it is some of the densest organic material she has ever seen, and it contains carbon, phosphorous, oxygen and sulfur, creating billions of DNA fragments. Suddenly she is transmatted away to the Hive along with the container. There she learns that the Thijarian world was destroyed in the assassin's absence. They claim to have become witnesses, and spent 100 generations honouring their lost world. The Doctor apooigisze, having not known she was desecrating the memory of their home. Now they travel to witness and honor those left dead, unseen and unknown, in the wake of the Partition. Now they come to honor Prem. She asks to see how the holy man died, and they show her.
Yaz, Graham and Ryan wait worriedly in the barn. The Doctor returns to reveal that Prem must die today, and that the Thijarians are not actually assassins but merely observers to those who are killed. She warns that they cannot interfere, or Umbreen will never become Yaz's nani.
In the morning, Ryan and Graham help Prem prepare for his wedding day. He mourns that so many around him seem to have lost their minds. Muslims, Hindu and Sikhs, who lived together for decades are now in a frenzy, convinced their differences are more important than what unites them. Graham comforts him, saying the best they can be is good men.
The Doctor officiates the wedding by a small stream, at the border of India and Pakistan. Using her sonic screwdriver she removes the rope border markers Manish had placed up earlier. She admires the certainty of Prem and Umbreen, the certainty of love. She says right now, they are the strongest people on the planet, maybe even the universe. She then admits she doesn't know how to formalise the ceremony. Umbreen says she does, and picks up one of Manish's boundary ropes and asks Yaz to tie their hands.
Later, inside the barn, Umbreen offers Manish reconciliation, and Manish coldly casts her and his own brother aside. After that, Prem offers Umbreen his watch, but drops it on the ground, where it breaks. Umbreen's mother says the day is truly cursed, but Umbreen says it is instead perfect, and that the watch is theirs forever, their own moment in time.
Manish leaves to find his brother's rifle and the Doctor follows him. He then points the rifle at the Doctor and warns her to take her friends and leave if they want to get out alive. The Doctor realises he has betrayed his whole family as well as murdering the holy man. Men on horseback are charging down the road to take their land. The Doctor warns Prem and Umbreen to run. Prem tells Umbreen to go to the house and take anything essential.
In the house, Yaz finds a map of the Earth, with Sheffield marked on it. Umbreen says she just pointed to a map and that was where her finger landed, and so that is where she will go one day.
In the barn, Prem offers to stay behind and distract the groups of thugs, and tells them all to go ahead, across the border in to the forest, and kisses Umbreen goodbye. He tells the Doctor to go as well, claiming he must face these demons alone. He confronts his brother and the thugs. He recognises a man named Kanon, a soldier he fought with during the war only to now see his former ally is prepared to shoot him. Nothing he says changes their minds, however, and Kanon shoots Prem, killing him. The Thijarians stand vigil, honoring Prem, as everyone flees.
Back on the TARDIS, Yaz worries if Umbreen managed to escape; if Umbreen died then, Yaz will fade away. The Doctor tells a stunned Yaz that her grandmother made it out alive, and will eventually end up in Sheffield.
At Flat 27, Yaz speaks with her nani. Umbreen notices the design on Yaz's hands, saying it isn't much good, but asks if the wedding was at least any good. Yaz affirms, her nani not knowing it was her wedding she had seen. Yaz asks her if she is happy with how her life turned out. She says she is happy with it, because it gave her Yaz, Yaz's mum and sister. Yaz says she no longer wants to know about the watch, and tells her nani she loves her.
Cast
- The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
- Graham O'Brien - Bradley Walsh
- Ryan Sinclair - Tosin Cole
- Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
- Nani Umbreen - Leena Dhingra
- Umbreen - Amita Suman
- Prem - Shane Zaza
- Manish - Hamza Jeetooa
- Hasna - Shaheen Khan
- Najia - Shobna Gulati
- Hakim - Ravin J Ganatra
- Sonya - Bhavnisha Parmar
- Voice of Kisar - Emma Fielding
- Performance of Kisar - Nathalie Curzner
- Voice of Almak - Isobel Middleton
- Performance of Almak - Barbara Fadden
Crew
to be added
References
The Doctor
- While participating in the pre-wedding celebrations, the Doctor muses that she never used to do this kind of thing when she was a man, a reference to her previous thirteen male incarnations.
- The Doctor can officiate weddings, having previously officiated Albert Einstein's.
- The Doctor considers love her "religion".
Culture
- A Hindu wedding custom is to have the couples hands tied together during their vows.
- A Muslim wedding custom is for the groom to give a prized possession to the bride.
- Henna is body art used to celebrate weddings in the Punjab.
Food and beverages
Story notes
File:Doctor Who Theme (Demons of the Punjab) Doctor Who Series 11
- For the second time this series, the usual Doctor Who theme does not play over the ending credits. In contrast to Rosa, this episode plays an Indian music inspired version of the theme.
- This is the first episode of Series 11 that isn't written or co-written by Chris Chibnall.
- This episode was broadcast on Remembrance Sunday and the centenary of the armistice that ended the First World War. As such it focuses on themes of remembrance.[1]
Ratings
- 5.77 million (UK overnight)[2]
Filming locations
Production errors
to be added
Continuity
- The Doctor pilots the TARDIS again using the telepathic circuits to find a specific place and time in relation to one of her companions. (TV: Listen, Dark Water)
- The Tenth Doctor also visited India during the 1947 Partition, with Donna Noble. (PROSE: Ghosts of India)
- The Doctor lists several things she needs to those around her to get her in order to solve the matter at hand. The Eleventh Doctor did the same at the White House. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
- The Doctor mentions that she was giving points to everyone. (TV: The Tsuranga Conundrum)
- Yaz's Muslim faith was briefly touched upon before. (TV: Rosa)
- The Doctor recalls having been a man. (TV: An Unearthly Child - Twice Upon a Time)
- Graham calls the Doctor "Doc". (TV: Rosa, Arachnids in the UK, The Tsuranga Conundrum, PROSE: Dr. Thirteenth)
- The Doctor refers to the dangers of going back in time to observe family members. (TV: Father's Day) Though this time, it is not as disastrous.
- The Doctor states she is too kind, something her predecessor told her to be. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
- The Doctor remarks she loves weddings. Her tenth (TV: The Runaway Bride) and eleventh incarnations held similar opinions, (TV: The Big Bang, Let's Kill Hitler) although the Tenth Doctor remarked he was "rubbish" at his own. (TV: Blink)
- By contrast, the Twelfth Doctor hated weddings. (COMIC: The Clockwise War)
- The Doctor has attended several weddings before. (TV: Father's Day, The Big Bang, COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone)
- The Doctor states that the people with her are under her protection. The Eleventh Doctor has voiced a similar sentiment multiple times. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, The Bells of Saint John, Nightmare in Silver)
- The Doctor incorrectly assumes malicious intent from aliens present at people's deaths. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
Home video releases
DVD releases
to be added
Blu-ray releases
to be added
Digital releases
to be added
External links
- Official Demons of the Punjab page on the Doctor Who website
