 the kumars at no. 42 is a british television show. it won an international emmy in 20022002 international emmy awards, internet movie database. and 2003,2003 international emmy awards, internet movie database. and won a peabody award in 2004.64th annual peabody awards, may 2005. it ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300792/ a remake of the show has been made as comedy nights with kapil with similar elements and concept. ==plot== the show stars a fictional british indian family, including madhuri and ashwin kumar (played by indira joshi and vincent ebrahim), their thirtysomething son sanjeev (played by sanjeev bhaskar), and sushila, sanjeev's grandmother, normally referred to as ummi (played by meera syal). the family lives in wembley, london, england. the show's central premise is that sanjeev's parents have supported his dream of being a television presenter by having a tv studio built on what used to be their back garden. running jokes include sanjeev's apparent social ineptitude, and ashwin's obsession with financial matters and his tendency to tell long stories with no real point, and ummi's stories of her absurd exploits with her childhood friend saraswati the bicycle (so named because of her contortionist skills). it is also a regular conceit that the guests' appearance fees are paid in chutney. the show has an improvisational feel, though in reality much of the regular cast's performance was scripted but the guest interviews were not. in the early episodes only meera syal improvised to any great extent though as the cast became accustomed to their characters, the improvised content increased for later episodes. bhaskar stated in a 2009 interview, "we never rehearsed the guests, and the best ones were the ones to keep the ball in the air."{{cite web|title=why comedians are dubbing hol
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