Cash and Curry Episode Review
Brief: Del’s swooping in on a deal of a lifetime – it could keep them in Pilau rice forever. All he has to do is get hold of £2000 to buy a poxy Indian statue… Trouble is, he hasn’t reckoned on a touch of gang warfare… Mr Ram and Vimmal aren’t the easiest guys to please.
Transmitted: 22.9.1981
Duration: 30 minutes
Viewing Figures: 7.3 million
Eager to forge new business contacts, Del befriends Vimmal Malik, a wealthy businessman who seems eager to work with Trotters Independent Traders.
After a dance at the Camberwell Chamber of Trade, Del and Vimmal are cornered by Mr Ram and his heavy boys. It seems that Vimmal is holding onto a pricey porcelain family heirloom that belongs to the Ram family – and they want it back.
In order to make an impression, Del offers to mediate between the two men, especially because Mr Ram is willing to pay four grand for the return of the statue to his family.
Unluckily for Del, the four grand is just a ruse and he ends up losing a fortune to Vimmal and Mr Ram, a couple of conmen touring the country using the same scam on local businessmen wherever they go.
Episode Observations
- In Cash and Curry, When Del is at Vimmals house, he drops his biscuit in his tea/coffee yet when he takes it out it’s totally dry.
- In Cash and Curry, when Del had to raise £2000 he sold everything including Grandads telly what grandad had rented it
- In Cash and Curry, In an episode of Open All Hours the man who plays Mr Ram was playing an Indian accountant and also in the SAME episode Jumbo Mills made an appearance! Is this how David Jason knew of these characters to be in OFAH?
- In Cash and Curry, when Vimmal goes to get the statue, he goes out of the front door to get it, and when Del and Rodney go out you can see the front door is the same as the living room door with the number 9 on.
- In Cash and Curry, they seem to have a lot of money, I think £500, left by their mum. Why didn’t they use this in cash and curry to scam the Indian families!
- In Cash and Curry, the scam that the two Indian chaps pull off is based on a very unlikely event. The fact that the deal requires Rodney to drive away with Vimal makes it very unlikely that the scam would ever have worked before, as Raam and Vimal claim, near the end. This means there would always have to be someone who takes Vimal away, leaving the victim of the con to ‘have a chat’ with Raam.
- In Cash and Curry, the class system which enables Del to pull off the deal is very suspect, as it says that Raam and Vimal can not meet. However, this is exactly what they do at the start when the deal is first being triggered off.
- In Cash and Curry Del and Rodney sell everything in the garage to find the £2000. Yet according to “Time on our Hands” the watch had been there at that time and thus cleared out of the garage.
- In Cash and Curry Has anyone noticed that when Del & Rodney are selling all their furniture when it shows them selling there T.V. they wheel the T.V. outside of their balcony and the removal men then wheel it to the right and round the corner, have a look.
- In Cash and Curry why didn’t the boys use the money that mum left to them to pay Wimo, surely it was better spent to afford £4000, than to use in a poker game.
Cash and Curry Script
Here is the downloadable Cash and Curry Script
Cash and Curry Uncut
Did You Know?
The idea for the script was based purely on the name of the episode Cash and Curry, from that the script was devised.
This original scene was changed
Original Tune
The Original tune for the opening series one was very different to the now well known tune currently used.
Today I visited Hanwell Community Centre in Ealing to take in the sights of the opening scene where Derek Trotter- ‘Del Boy’ and Rodney Trotter meet Vimmal Malik, Mr Ram and Oddjob.
The car park is surprisingly small but the pillars are still intact with their black base nearly Fourty Years later.
I went inside and the doors have changed and inside I saw a football pitch close to the entrance for kids to play football.
I took my Kuvera statue, Only Fools and Horses DVD Collection and Renu Setna autograph with me and i believe i am the first Only Fools and Horses fan to bring Kuvera’s statue to the location of the original opening scene of Cash and Curry some Fourty Years later!
40 Years ago today this episode was shown on 22nd September 1981. I was looking into Kuvera and the Hindu trinity and noticed the statue’s face really does look like Kuvera in images online.
I own Mr Ram – Renu Setna autograph which is available on the Only Fools and Horses shop. I am well chuffed to own his autograph!
Has anyone noticed that when Del and Rodney flog all their stock from their garage to raise the £2000 to give to Vimmal Malik it must have included the John Harrison timepiece which was found in Del and Rodney’s garage in ‘Time on our Hands’. Therefore Del and Rodney should never have become millionaires!
It is 40 years ago today that this great classic episode of Cash and Curry in Only Fools and Horses was broadcast! I have been researching Kuvera so has anyone noticed that the statue of Kuvera really does look like Kuvera!
Vimmal Malik’s flat clearly has the door number 9 on it meaning the hostel he stays at is incredibly small if flat 9 is on the top floor.
Did you know In Cash and Curry the hostel Vimmal stays at is the same hostel Raquel stays at in Dates.
Acorrding to the website IMBD The actor who portrays Mr. Rham’s bodyguard, “Oddjob”, is uncredited and remains unknown.
does anyone have any information on him anywhere?
Don’t know if this helps but the Wiki page for cash and curry credits Roy Questel as “oddjob”. Can’t find any further info on him though.
Watched this episode again today – in the car scene at the end when the 2 scam artists are laughing their heads off (that they got away with it) is that a different actor playing Vimmel in the car?
because the Vimmel that’s in the car, is slightly fatter in the face, not as dark skinned as the Vimmel we see in his house (didn’t mean that in a racist way) and his voice is just a hint different.
anyone else spotted this?
With regards to the episode “Cash and Curry”, I think I have found another goof. At the end when Vimmel and Mr Ram are in the car mocking Del Boy, Mr Ram imitiates Del by saying “Me old Mucker”. Yet if you watch this episode carefully, you will notice that Del only uses this expression several times in front of Vimmel and never in front of Mr Ram, so how can Mr Ram know that Del was in the habit of saying “Me old Mucker” ?
Possibly by them communicating between themselves. It is possible for Vimmel to have mentioned to Mr Ram that Del used that expression
I watched this yesterday and after watching Rock and Chips got a lump in my throat when the boys were at Mums grave.. Bless her heart..
Wrong episode!!
Meant to write that in Yellow Peril!!!
What a plonker!!!