Murdered by My Father is a British drama television film written by Vinay Patel, directed by Bruce Goodison and produced by Toby Welch, and starring Adeel Akhtar and Kiran Sonia Sawar, that first aired on BBC One in March 2016.
The drama tells the story of an honour killing of a British Asian Muslim teenage girl by her father.
[1][2][3] For his performance in the film, Akhtar won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.
[6] Ceri Redford, writing in The Daily Telegraph, described the drama as "nuanced and unbearably heart-breaking" and "a brave piece of television".
[7] Kasia Delgado, in the Radio Times, wrote that the drama "deserves a Bafta [award] for depicting this very real issue so brilliantly".