Sanjeev Kohli
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Sanjeev Singh Kohli[1] (born 1971) is a Scottish comedian, writer and actor. He is most famous for his role as Navid Harrid in the sitcom, Still Game.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Kohli was born in London to a social worker and a teacher,[2] but came to Scotland when he was three years old.[3] Kohli's parents came to the United Kingdom in the 1960s from India. He has two elder brothers — Randeep Singh Kohli (1966), a policeman and Hardeep Singh Kohli (1969), who is also a journalist and broadcaster.[2]
[edit] Career
Kohli starred in Meet the Magoons for Channel 4, co-written by his brother Hardeep, as Surjit Magoon[4] and has appeared in several episodes of the BBC comedy series Look Around You as Synthesiser Patel.[5] He was the former presenter of the BBC's Asian Network and has previously written for Goodness Gracious Me, The Big Breakfast and Chewin' the Fat, which was also written by future Still Game co-stars, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill.
In December 2006, the Sunday Mail revealed that Kohli would be starring in the major ITV thriller, Losing Gemma. Starring alongside Alice Eve, he played "a member of the British High Commission, who helps a young English tourist jailed in Delhi, India".[6] Kohli revealed in 2007 that he would be working on a radio comedy project for BBC Radio 4, currently entitled Fags, Mags and Bags.[3] The Daily Record also revealed Kohli would be writing for ITV children's show, My Life as a Popat.[3] Kohli has also starred in BBC Three's Rush Hour as an intolerant taxi driver,[7] and on the same channel in Phoo Action as a television news presenter.[8]
On August 21, 2007, he presented a show called "10 Things To Hate About The Edinburgh Festival". Kohli also sometimes appears as a pundit on BBC One Scotland's Saturday afternoon Sportscene football programme. Kohli made a brief cameo in a speaking role as himself in an episode of BBC's VideoGaiden, where he received a fish in the mail as a gift from the hosts in an attempt to recreate the Nintendo game Animal Crossing. One of the hosts was Robert Florence, a writer whom Kohli worked with on Chewin' the Fat.[9]
[edit] Controversy
In 2005 Kohli was reprimanded by Glasgow City Council and had his licence to rent out a property in the city suspended for two years due to safety concerns.[10] In January 2007, Kohli commented on the accusations of racism on Celebrity Big Brother. He told of an incident in which a former boss called him "Mahatma", in reference to Gandhi.[11]
[edit] Personal life
Kohli currently lives in Glasgow with his wife, Fiona, and their three children.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983
- ^ a b c McFerran, Ann (2007-08-26). Relative Values: Hardeep Singh Kohli and his brother Sanjeev. The Times.
- ^ a b c English, Paul (2007-04-09). TILL GAME. Daily Record (Scotland). Retrieved on 2007-04-16.
- ^ Meet the Magoons. British Sitcom Guide. Retrieved on 2007-10-06.
- ^ Look Around You. BBC Press Office (2005-01-11). Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
- ^ Sunday Mail. NAVID'S GAME FOR NEW TV ROLE. Retrieved on December 18, 2006.
- ^ Rush Hour. BBC Online. Retrieved on 2007-10-06.
- ^ Still Game Sanjeev To Be TV Newsreader. Daily Record (Scotland) (2007-09-27). Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ YouTube. videoGaiden: Rab and Ryan Go Animal Crossing. Retrieved on August 31, 2007.
- ^ "Navid the landlord falls foul of council", The Scotsman, September 3, 2005.
- ^ Daily Record. DON'T REVEL IN RACISM. Retrieved on February 9, 2007.
