Author Shamini Flint on her iconic Inspector Singh being a TV show

MALAYSIANSKINI | Prolific author Shamini Flint made the news recently when it was reported that her Inspector Singh Investigates novels were going to be adapted into a TV series.

The three-part series will star British actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, star of the sitcom The Kumars at No. 42 and a lead role in the Unforgotten crime series.

‘Inspector Singh’ was commissioned by online video subscription service BritBox International and will go into production in January 2023.

It will be produced by London/Singapore-based global media firm 108 Media and directed by Suri Krishnamma, who also directed ‘The Canterville Ghost’ and ‘Coronation Street’ TV series.

At the time of the interview with Malaysiakini, Kuala Lumpur-born Flint was still in Singapore and was in the midst of making a trip to vote in Lembah Pantai before flying to Doha for the World Cup.

Flint was a lawyer working for a UK-based law firm in Singapore and had two children when she took the plunge to become an author.

”I said that it was the high tide of maternal hormones that confused me and I quit my job. It was not my best decision because I was the worst stay-at-home mum.

“I turned into a proper tiger mother because I had nowhere else to channel my workaholism and energies except to chase my poor toddlers around. That is when I started to write,” Flint told Malaysiakini.

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