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Sachin’s character made history on Neighbours then got ‘sent back to India’-By Sarah Conte<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\u201cAll the good ones leave and us rubbish actors are always left behind,\u201d says Alan Fletcher \u2013 better known as Dr Karl Kennedy \u2013 to the man beside him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It\u2019s 2013 and Sachin Joab has just finished filming his last scenes as Erinsborough lawyer Ajay Kapoor on the set of one of Australia\u2019s best-known TV shows, Neighbours. Someone is filming the goodbyes as Fletcher hands Joab a present.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cI wrapped this, that\u2019s why it\u2019s so crap. This is from the cast\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s exchangeable\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Joab lets out a laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Harold\u2019s Store\u2019 is filled with cast and crew who clap and cheer along. But as the celebrations die down, Joab sighs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The mood in the room shifts and it\u2019s clear he has something serious to say.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sachin Joab on his last day on Neighbours in 2013.\u00a0Source:\u00a0Supplied\u00a0\/\u00a0Channel 10 \/ Digital Spy<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Neighbours, which will air its last episode this week, premiered in 1985. It wasn\u2019t immediately popular but by 1987 a cul-de-sac in suburban Melbourne known as Ramsay Street had become the country\u2019s most famous.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The episode featuring Scott and Charlene\u2019s wedding drew two million viewers in Australia and made stars of the actors playing them – Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue. In the UK, 19.6 million people watched, more than the entire Australian population at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By 1989, a third of the UK population was tuning in each day. The show was sold to 60 countries around the world. But did it show Australia\u2019s diversity?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Australia of the 1980s looked a little different than today, but not entirely. The 1986 census found more than half the population cited Anglo-Celtic origins. Twenty-one per cent of Australians were born overseas, and almost a quarter had a parent born overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today, 27 per cent of Australians were born overseas and almost half have a parent born overseas. Around a third of people are from the Pacific and 17 per cent cite Asian ancestry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An Asian family did temporarily move to Ramsay Street in 1993 for a short run of episodes which included a storyline that saw them accused of barbequing another neighbour\u2019s dog.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fifteen years later, in 2008, a report by Britain\u2019s racial equality chief found many viewers from \u201cethnic\u201d backgrounds felt underrepresented in popular television shows and singled out Neighbours for being \u201call white\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Susan Bower was the executive producer of Neighbours when the Kapoor family were introduced.\u00a0Source:\u00a0Supplied<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Susan Bower was the executive producer of Neighbours for three years from 2008. She sums it up like this: \u201cNeighbours is Vegemite; it\u2019s an Australian icon\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When she took the helm, the show was still popular, but not as much as in its heyday. She says she wanted to bring the show into the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI felt an enormous pressure, and to be honest, professionally, I didn’t want to be the person who saw Neighbours\u2019 demise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI think everyone wanted to save it.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But the strategy to transform the show was \u201cevolution, not revolution\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Her first idea to bring a Lebanese family to the show was agreed at the time to be \u201cperhaps a jump too far,\u201d she says. But in 2011 she introduced Indian\/Sri Lankan family The Kapoors – the first non-white family to move onto Ramsay Street as full-time cast members in the show\u2019s history. It had taken 26 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI chose three Sri Lankan\/Indian characters, and I know they’re not the same, but we do have such a large population here in Australia, Melbourne in particular. Also, there are a lot of Indian people in the UK. I’ve been there many times, and I thought that it would be a cross-nation choice,\u201d Bower says.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Kapoors were the first non-white family to move onto Ramsay Street as full-time cast members.\u00a0Source:\u00a0Supplied\u00a0\/\u00a0Channel 10<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

She also introduced the first gay male teen character as a core cast member; Chris Pappas, played by James Mason.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cBoth these points mean the mixture of Neighbours characters more accurately reflect modern society on both sides of the globe,\u201d she wrote in her exit report.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But there were some who didn\u2019t like Neighbours\u2019 new direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
As far as criticism goes, \u201cI got that in spades, and the show got that in spades,\u201d she says, describing it as the hardest job she\u2019d ever had.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bower says criticism came from within the team behind Neighbours as well within the production company (Fremantle Australia, it was previously Grundy Television prior to 2006). Channel 10 were also \u201cvery nervous\u201d, she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She does though, reference a visit from one Fremantle boss who visited from the UK and took a walk around Melbourne\u2019s Southbank.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cHe saw a lot of cultural diversity and [asked] why didn\u2019t we do that? Why wasn’t it mirrored in Neighbours?\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Backlash to the new characters also came from the audience.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sachin Joab played Ajay Kapoor in Neighbours from 2011 to 2013.\u00a0Source:\u00a0Supplied<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sachin Joab is an Australian actor of Indian background. He was born and raised in Melbourne but hadn\u2019t grown up watching the Neighbours. Instead, he says, he preferred American TV, where he saw African American and Hispanic actors on screen, and people that reminded him of himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But in 2011 a role came up on Neighbours with no specific nationality required, so he went for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI was really happy that I got to just be myself, and my ethnicity, my background, my culture, it wasn’t really required for that particular audition,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
His character was Ajay, the father of the Kapoor family, which also included on-screen wife Priya and daughter Rani.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Introducing the family drew a mixed reaction from the public. Joab was heartened by handwritten notes he received from fans in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cA lot of the content was basically, \u2018it\u2019s been so long, we\u2019ve been waiting for faces like yours to be shown on screen. We heard there\u2019s a large Indian community in Australia, and yet we weren\u2019t seeing it on Neighbours,\u2019\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But in Australia, the family became the subject of an online racist backlash.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201c\u2018Why do we need an Indian family on Neighbours?\u2019 Or \u2018send them back to India,\u2019\u201d Joab recalls people saying online.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cIt was comments that basically wanted to exclude us.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2018Why do we need an Indian family on Neighbours?’ … ‘Send them back to India’.<\/span><\/div>\n

Sachin Joab on comments made about the Kapoor family<\/cite><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Having \u201ccopped a bit of racism\u201d growing up, Joab says he wasn\u2019t surprised. But Bower was.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cMany times there was downright racism, and I didn’t think my country was that. I wasn’t brought up like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Kapoor family enjoyed many of the same storylines that would be given to any family on the street – an affair, neighbourhood rivalries, wife Priya even died and returned as a ghost, and Joab at the time thought this was positive. Like many people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background, he says he just \u201cwanted to fit in\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But looking back, he would have liked to see more references to South Asian culture.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere are little nuances that happen within families that don\u2019t have an Anglo Saxon\/Anglo Celtic background.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThere might be different things in the way you talk. You might be speaking English and you might throw in a sentence or a line or a word even from your cultural background, from your parents\u2019 background. There might be something about the foods \u2026 what you watch on TV \u2026 none of those things were included.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cHad they done that back then, I think it would have created a bit of a ripple effect and slowly allowed more ethnicities onto Neighbours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bower says these nuances were part of her long-term plan for the family, but ultimately she ran out of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI wanted to introduce them slowly, and particularly with the backlash being so fierce, we put a little go slow on the whole thing.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On a recent visit to the street, Joab insists despite some of the ways things went, he \u201cloved working on the show\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI loved all the other actors \u2026 doing what I love to do, but it’s kind of bittersweet as well because I would have loved to have stayed here for as long as everybody else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Joab\u2019s time on Neighbours would ultimately be short-lived. In 2013, he was called into a meeting and told he and his on-screen daughter would be written out of the show. The storyline was they were moving \u201cback to India\u201d, he says. It still doesn\u2019t sit with him well.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWe were born and raised in Erinsborough. Sending us back to a country that we\u2019re not from, with no return date, just made no sense.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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We were born and raised in Erinsborough. Sending us back to a country that we\u2019re not from … just made no sense.<\/span><\/div>\n

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To him, the storyline sounded like something he\u2019d heard before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t just written out, we were sent back to India, which is exactly what a lot of the racist comments [from the public] were.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201c\u2018Why bring an Indian family to Ramsay Street? We don\u2019t need an Indian family here, please send them back home, send them back to India\u2019. So that\u2019s exactly what they did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Alin Sumarwata, an Iranian-Australian actor, was told she\u2019d be written out of the show shortly after, he says, although she would later return.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
So standing on the set of Harold\u2019s Store, on his last day on Neighbours, Joab spoke his mind.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI was sad, but as soon as I found out Alin was leaving as well, that\u2019s when I thought \u2018well, all the multicultural actors are going,\u2019\u201d Joab says to the colleagues gathered around.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s what turned the sadness into anger and a lot of frustration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
After receiving his goodbye present (a pair of headphones) he said he didn\u2019t buy the argument that the characters were written out for story-based reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s not just two steps back; it\u2019s like 10 steps back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Then executive producer Richard Jasek said in a statement at the time: “We will all miss Sachin. He is an exceptional actor and a great friend to all the cast and crew.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“The Kapoors have been at the forefront of some memorable storylines, which is testament to Sachin’s talent. Like all our characters, we hope there will be opportunities for Ajay to return to Ramsay Street.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ben Michael was a writer on Neighbours for two decades.\u00a0Source:\u00a0Supplied<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

These days, Ben Michael is a lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, but he first started working on Neighbours in 1991 as a runner, before being promoted to the writing room.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A \u201cfilm school snob\u201d, it wasn\u2019t the entry-level job he\u2019d been hoping for, but over the years he says he fell in love with the characters and would continue to write for the show for around two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Michael, who has Italian heritage, says for a lot of that time he was the only writer on the show from a non-Anglo-Saxon background.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat I remember is the writers very much wanting the show to represent the Australia we saw when we walked outside the office, but the higher-ups had a general vibe that we weren\u2019t there to \u2018educate\u2019 or \u2018rock the boat\u2019\u201d, he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The BBC and British audience were looking for \u201can older nostalgic version of Australia, almost like they wanted to escape their own issues with a diverse culture and enjoy a fantasy of a sunny country populated by people with an English background,\u201d he says he was led to believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI was reminded by a fellow writer of a story we once did about a Middle Eastern asylum seeker who was on the run and the local teenagers tried to help him whilst learning about the reasons people flee to this country \u2026 but when the part was eventually cast he was turned into an Irish backpacker who\u2019d overstayed his visa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Fremantle Australia, the BBC and Channel 10 didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment on Joab, Bower or Michael\u2019s allegations. Comment was also sought from former actor Sumarwata and former executive producer Jasek.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Since Joab\u2019s time with Neighbours, the soap did make some progress when it came to on-screen diversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In 2014, it introduced its first Indigenous character. In 2017, it was the first show to have a same-sex wedding after it was legalised in Australia. And today, its final cast, while still mostly caucasian, includes actors with Papua New Guinean, Japanese, Lebanese and Nigerian heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A transgender character is also played by an actor who is transgender, and there\u2019s a character played by an actor with Down syndrome.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Off-screen, Fremantle last year launched an independent review amid multiple claims of racism. The findings were never made public.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Joab, who has since starred in the 2016 film Lion and Netflix series Irreverent, says there\u2019s still a long way to go when it comes to casting culturally and linguistically diverse actors in leading roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He believes it needs more than goodwill; there need to be quotas and legislation to help force change.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe reason I say that with some vigour behind it, is because if that doesn’t occur, I daresay it will take a minimum of a decade.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Former writer Michael though, says things have already changed for the better.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI would argue that these days if you tried to pitch a show of only Anglo-Saxon, upper-middle-class or middle-class Australians, you wouldn’t get it made, and quite rightly; that’s just not the world that we live in.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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These days if you tried to pitch a show of only Anglo-Saxon upper-middle class Australians, you wouldn’t get it made.<\/span><\/div>\n

Ben Michael, Former Neighbours writer<\/cite><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

As Neighbours closes the door on 37 years, there\u2019s a lot it will be remembered for. The young budding actors that became household names (Margot Robbie, Liam Hemsworth, Guy Pearce and Natalie Imbruglia, along with Donovan and Minogue), Dr Karl\u2019s sordid affairs, and the time Toadie chopped off his mullet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It was the show many of us watched, former writer Michael says, \u201cwith daggy affection\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But it was also the show that struggled to turn Australian neighbours once invisible, into good friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The final episode of Neighbours will air at 7.30pm on Thursday 28 July on Channel 10.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Would you like to share your story with SBS News? Email\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
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