---
name: "Smita Bhide"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/smita-bhide"
fi1m_id: "smita-bhide"
imdb_id: "nm1278564"
tmdb_id: 111660
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:07:27.858928+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Smita Bhide

## Identity

Smita Bhide

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/smita-bhide
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** smita-bhide
- **IMDb ID:** nm1278564
- **TMDB ID:** 111660
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1278564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111660

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1278564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111660

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Girlfriend*](https://film.one/tv/the-girlfriend.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Smita Bhide is a British writer, director and producer of film and television.

She co-created, wrote and co-produced the Netflix series *The Indian Detective* (2017). Her other television credits include writing episodes of *Hunted* (2012), *Transporter: The Series* (2014), *Ten Pound Poms* (2023–2025) and *The Girlfriend* (2025). She wrote the screenplay for the feature *Desert Flower* (2009).

Bhide wrote and directed the feature *The Blue Tower* (2008), which won the Raindance Best UK Feature award, and the short film *Another Planet* (2011).

*Sources: bafta.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Girlfriend* (2025), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-girlfriend.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Girlfriend* (2025), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-girlfriend.md)
- *Ten Pound Poms* (2023), series, Writer
- *The Indian Detective* (2017), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Transporter: The Series* (2013), series, Writer
- *Desert Flower* (2009), Co-Writer, Script Editor
- *The Blue Tower* (2008), Screenplay, Director

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