The Sixth Happiness

Credits

Direction

• Director Waris Hussein
• Assistant Director (1st) Julie Edwards
• Assistant Director (2nd) Connie Boylan
• Assistant Director Batul Malik
• Assistant Director Sujata Melmani
• Assistant Director Yusuf Mehta
• Script Supervisor Cathy Doubleday

Production

• Presented by/© BBC Films
• Presented by/© British Film Institute Production
• In Assocation with Arts Council of England
• Production Company Kennedy Mellor
• Supported by National Lottery through the Arts Council of England
• Developed by BBC
• Developed by British Film Institute
• With the Support of European Script Fund
• Executive Producer Frances-Anne Solomon
• Executive Producer Ben Gibson
• Producer Tatiana Kennedy
• Line Producer (India) Shama Habibullah
• Associate Producer Eliza Mellor
• Production Executive (BBC) Christopher Cameron
• Production Executive (BFI) Christopher Collins
• Unit Manager Rudabah Nanporia
• Production Manager Iqbal Kidwai
• Production Co-ordinator Sarah-Jane Wilson
• Production Co-ordinator Anna Campeau
• Production Accountant Michael Wood
• Production Accounts Adviser Rukhshana Mistry
• Delhi Liaison Shernaz Italia
• Mumbai Liaison Sheena Peters
• Location Manager Sunil Chhabra
• Location Manager Ranjit Indori
• Production Assistant Sonia Rai
• Production Assistant Radhika Jha
• Production Assistant Rajil Sayani
• Trainee Rajesh Rajani
• Trainee Junaid Banatwala
• Trainee Nadeem
• Unit Runner Kutty Shekhar
• Studio Bow Studios

Casting

• Casting Director (UK) Emma Style
• Casting Director (India) Dolly Thakore

Writing

• Script Editor Paulette Warwick
• Screenplay Firdaus Kanga
• Based on the novel "Trying to Grow" by Firdaus Kanga

Photography

• Director of Photography James Welland
• Focus Puller Denzil Armour-Brown
• Clapper Loader Catherine Derry
• Clapper Loader Rohinton Behramshah
• Camera Assistant Avijit Mukul Kishore
• Gaffer Barry Miller
• Chief Electrician Raja Khan
• Electrician Paul Sharp
• Electrician Jason Lobb
• Electrician Nizam Khan
• Electrician Rasool Khan
• Key Grip Lucho Zuidema

Editing

• Editor Laurence Méry-clark
• Assistant Editor Tom Kinnersly

Design

• Production Designer Lynne Whiteread
• Art Director Tom Bowyer
• Assistant Art Director Dan Dray
• Set Decorator Joanna Tague
• Set Decorator Suzanne Caplan Merwanji
• Painter Karen Whiteread
• Painter Matthew Amos
• Standby Painter Ankush Bhirmane
• Standby Props Chris Browning
• Standby Props Nayantara Kalgutkar
• Props Buyer/Dresser Chetana Prabhu
• Props Master Suparna Sengupta
• Construction Manager Antoine Colchester
• Standby Carpenter M. Shakir

Costumes

• Costume Designer Amal Allana
• Wardrobe Master Paul Yeowell
• Wardrobe Mistress/Research Mona Chawla
• Wardrobe Assistant Urvarshi Bhargava
• Wardrobe Assistant Beejul Mehta

Make-up

• Make-up/Hair Designer Jacquetta Levon
• Make-up/Hair Assistant Alex King
• Make-up Assistant Jeetu
• Hair Assistant Neesha Jhaveri

Titles

• Titles Design Steve Masters

Film processing

• Opticals Studio 51

Music

• Music Dominique Le Gendre
• Musician Tom Ashton
• Musician Clive Bell
• Musician Sian Bell
• Musician Paul Cheneour
• Musician Ralph De Souza
• Musician Sue Harrod
• Musician Dominique Le Gendre
• Musician Jocelyn Pook
• Musician Pandit Sharda Sahai
• Musician Kirsten Spratt

Choreography

• Choreography Patrick César
• Choreography Lynne Page

Sound

• Sound Recordist John Marchbank
• Boom Operator Peter Margrave
• Dubbing Editor Aad Wirtz
• Sound Editor Stewart Henderson
• Sound Editor Philip Alton

Consultant

• Catering Bad Catering
• Unit Medical Adviser Pankaj Pandya

Visitor to set

• Firdaus' Companion (UK) Patrice Minery
• Firdaus' Companion (India) Peter Maguire