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Da Vinci Was Indian

Goodness Gracious Me 2000 Season 3 Episode 2

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

On a trip to an art gallery, a proud father insists that the world's great masterpieces, and the artists who painted them, are all secretly Indian.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A young man is thrilled to finally see the Mona Lisa, but his father, the man convinced that everything comes from India, announces that the sitter is really a Gujarati washerwoman from Bhavnagar who is wondering how much the painter charges. As they tour the gallery, the son's arguments from the guidebook get nowhere: the Last Supper proves its Indian origins by leaving the women in the kitchen, Picasso's jumbled faces and Lowry's matchstick figures are said to come straight from Delhi, and Rubens, Botticelli and Michelangelo are each claimed in turn, the last for decorating a ceiling the way only an Indian restaurant would. Finally the son triumphantly points to the Statue of David as an ideal of male perfection, and his father has to concede that this one, at least, is not Indian.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Mr Everything Comes From India

Cast

Kulvinder Ghir

Son

More Son roles

Cast

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Of course it's inspiring, because it's Indian.

Ah, the painter of the Sistine Tandoori.

Only an Indian restaurant would have a ceiling painted like that.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

Sharat Sardana
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Richard Pinto
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Meera Syal
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Anil Gupta
Writer
Additional material for Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Sanjeev Kohli
Writer
Additional material for Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Nina Wadia
Writer
Additional material for Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Nick Wood
Director
One of two credited directors of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); the segment's director is not specified.
Christine Gernon
Director
One of two credited directors of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); the segment's director is not specified.
Anil Gupta
Producer
Producer (British Comedy Guide).
Jon Plowman
Producer
Executive producer (British Comedy Guide).