History Series / TheIndianDetective

* PlayingGertrude: Anupam Kher is only fifteen years older than Russell Peters, who plays his son. Meanwhile Hamza Haq and the actress playing his sister look around a decade older than Akshay Kuman as their nephew and son.

* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Doug gets tangled up with a local organized crime gang in Mumbai led by Gopal Chandekar. Of course, they don't stand out as an ''ethnic'' gang, per se, because they're also Indian.

* JurisdictionFriction: With the CBSA in the first episode. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they're suppose to take the lead in any criminal situation on the Canadian side of the American-Canadian border.

* TurnInYourBadge: Doug is suspended from the Toronto Police Service for a month. His partner Robyn also gets a week-long one.

''The Indian Detective'' is a 2017 comedy/drama miniseries that aired on November 30, 2017 on Creator/{{CTV}} and it has an overseas releases via Creator/{{Netflix}} on December 19, 2017. It stars comedian Creator/RussellPeters, who also had a hand in helping with the show's script, some of it based on his experiences as an Indian-Canadian. The creators consist of Frank Spotnitz and Smita Bhide. Four episodes are directed by Sandra Johnson.

Doug D'Mello is [[ExperiencedProtagonist an experienced Indian-Canadian police officer with the Toronto Police Service]] who worked on a case of drug trafficking from New York to Toronto when he botches an investigation after initially getting into a JurisdictionFriction situation with the Canada Border Services Agency. Due to this and partially to his CowboyCop attitude, Doug is suspended for a month.

Doug visits his father Stanley after being told that he's supposedly dead in a Mumbai hospital, except that he overreacted. [[JumpedAtTheCall He became involved in investigating criminal activities in Mumbai]] after his father told a local that Doug's a detective at the TPS, when he's just a constable. He later investigates other crimes that are tied with a corrupt Canadian businessman and Mumbai-based organized crime.

* BlueOrangeContrast: Scenes in Toronto are often lit in wintry, "developed-country" greys, whites and blues. Scenes in Mumbai on the other hand are usually shot in hot, tropical, warm colours from browns to oranges to yellows, with hints of green.

''The Indian Detective'' is a 2017 comedy/drama miniseries that aired on November 30, 2017 on Creator/{{CTV}} and it's scheduled for an overseas releases via Creator/{{Netflix}} on December 19, 2017. It stars comedian Creator/RussellPeters, who also had a hand in helping with the show's script, some of it based on his experiences as an Indian-Canadian. The creators consist of Frank Spotnitz and Smita Bhide. Four episodes are directed by Sandra Johnson.

* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Doug gets tangled up with a local organized crime gang in Mumbai led by Gopal Chandekar.

* GratuitousEnglish: In India, where a lot of locals are fluent and speak straight English around Doug. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] given how India was a British colony, and English, as an official language, is one of the few that the country's 1.5 billion people can mutually understand.

* GenderBlenderName: Deputy Commissioner ''Ruby'' Singh (assuming it's based on the Western name "Ruby", which in the West is generally a female name).

** Meanwhile, it's implied this is at least ''one'' thing Deputy Commissioner Ruby Singh could do to Inspector Devo if he attempts to help Priya build a case against Gopal Chandekar.