Citizen Khan

- Season 1

(2012)

Mr Khan is a pompous, tight-fisted Pakistani businessman who dreams of becoming the next president of the Sparkhill Business Association. His daughter Shazia is marrying handsome but dim Amjad Malick, whose mother looks down on the Khans. But Mr. Khan has forgotten to book the mosque for the wedding and cannot bully its new manager, English convert Dave, into fitting him in, so he tells Amjad that Shazia has canceled the wedding. When this fails, he must submit to the predatory advances of Mrs Bilal to save the day.

Mr Khan has been invited to the Pakistani businessmen's lunch. Unfortunately, his senile mother-in-law Naani is staying and about to celebrate her birthday. Mrs Khan has ordered her husband to take her mother shopping for her present while she prepares a surprise birthday tea when he would prefer to be at the lunch. He manages to lose Naani and returns home telling the assembled guests that he thinks she has drowned in the canal. When Naani eventually returns, Mr Khan, having missed his lunch, makes her a generous offer, but she is in no mood to reciprocate.

Tight-fisted as ever, Mr Khan refuses to dip into the family's rainy-day fund to finance Shazia's honeymoon or Alia's religious study-group camp; he won't even take his wife on holiday abroad when they can stay with his cousin in Bradford. However, a charity auction at the mosque with a luxury foreign holiday as the prize gives him the chance to pose as a philanthropist and get one over on Amjad's father, who is also bidding. He blows the rainy-day fund and wins the holiday, but it is not what he expected and he is forced to do a deal with Mr Malik.

The mosque is recording a new call to prayer and Mr Khan insists on holding auditions for the voice artist. Since none are up to his impossible standards, he starts a poster campaign, persuading Amjad to put flyers in the window of Mobiles-U-Like,where he works. Unfortunately, this is in breach of Amjad's contract and loses him his planned promotion. Mr Khan must sacrifice his dignity and his grand ideas for a new caller in order to save his prospective son-in-law's job hopes.

Mr Khan has bought a wide-screen television with surround-sound and hopes to ask his pals round to watch the England versus Pakistan cricket match. Unfortunately, Mrs Khan's friend Mrs Shafiq's husband has just died and she wants him out of the house so that she and her lady friends can have a prayer meeting. After unsuccessfully asking Dave to let him use the mosque's television, Khan bullies Amjad into sneaking his set out of the prayer room into the back where his friends are waiting. However, his attempts to grope for the remote have a traumatic effect on Mrs ...

When family friends cannot attend Shazia and Amjad's wedding, Mrs Khan wants the spare invite to go to the Parvez family, but her social-climbing husband gives it to influential Councillor Javed. For an excuse he lies that Shazia 'did the naughtiness' with the Parvezes' son, which leads a depressed Amjad to disappear, though Dave brings him back. After Khan has admitted his lie, he is forced to endorse Shazia's view that what she did before meeting Amjad is her business, which causes Amjad's mother to try to cancel the wedding. As a huge row ensues, Mr and Mrs Khan ...