Christmas Karma

11/19/2025

“Mr. Sood” (Kunal Nayyar) is a wealthy but curmudgeonly British-Indian (via Uganda) businessman who, on Christmas Eve, sacks most of his staff for having an impromptu party before heading to his luxury home brimming with a spirit of bah-humbug - or the vegetarian, Hindu, equivalent.  Meantime, his loyal clerk “Cratchit” (Leo Suter) returns to his own large family, a past it’s sell-by-date chicken and the ailing “Tiny Tim”. Loathing the carol singers who couldn’t, admittedly, carry a tune in a bucket, and expecting his long-suffering housekeeper to turn up on the big day, “Sood” is surprisingly unnerved by the briefest of appearances from his long dead business partner “Marley” (Hugh Bonneville) who portends three more ghostly/ghastly apparitions who are to, perhaps, offer him some hope of