FrameThrower · Actors · Meera Syal
Meera Syal
2 films · 116 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2019
Born 27 June 1961 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Meera Syal MBE is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42.
She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997 and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 116 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2019
- BAFTA Fellowship2023
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire2026
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire2015
- Member of the Order of the British Empire1997
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2016
- Betty Trask Award1996
How their films are shot
Measured across 116 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Meera takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Meera takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 116 frames from Meera Syal's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.