Creator and producer of The Tea Planter an international TV series set in Assam and based on the biographical novel Tea Love and War by David Mitchell, Michael returned to India, the land of his birth, 20 years ago. His Hindi film Bombairiya was released by Sony and Netflix in 2019. Before leaving London, however, Michael’s obsession with Indian stories for global audiences led to him adapting and producing a West End stage musical based on M. M. Kaye’s best-selling novel The Far Pavilions. Michael is married to film director and homeschooling mother, Pia Sukanya and they parent their six year old son, Edi Sukanya-Ward, in Delhi.


