1. Sanjeev Bhaskar was born on 31 October 1963 and is a British-Indian actor, comedian and television presenter.
23 Facts About Sanjeev Bhaskar
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Sanjeev Bhaskar is best known for his work in the BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two sketch comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as the star of the sitcom The Kumars at No 42.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar presented and starred in a documentary series called India with Sanjeev Bhaskar, in which he travelled to India and visited his ancestral home in today's Pakistan.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar became chancellor of the University of Sussex in 2009.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar was born on 31 October 1963 in Ealing, Middlesex.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar's elder sister was born five years before him, and the family lived above their launderette Sanjeev Bhaskar's parents worked hard, and Sanjeev started working part-time when he was 14.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar earned a degree in marketing from Hatfield Polytechnic before landing a job as a marketing executive at IBM.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar soon realised that he preferred comedy to marketing and joined forces with an old college friend, Nitin Sawhney, to start a musical comedy double act called The Secret Asians, which they first performed in 1996 at the now-defunct Tom Allen Arts Centre in East London.
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In 1994 or 1995, Sanjeev Bhaskar had his first paid job as a performer with Tara Arts, a theatre company in south London.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar has starred in a number of British-produced films, including The Guru, Notting Hill, and Anita and Me.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar had a cameo as a shop owner in Yash Raj Films' production Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar had a major role in the 2019 film, Yesterday, in which he and his wife, Meera Syal, played a married couple.
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In 2008 Sanjeev Bhaskar made his musical theatre debut as King Arthur in Spamalot at London's Palace Theatre.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar featured in a Channel 4 documentary series called The House That Made Me.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar wrote and starred in the ITV sitcom Mumbai Calling and the UK tour of the hit American improv show Totally Looped.
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On 31 October 2014, Sanjeev Bhaskar hosted Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, standing in for Simon Mayo on the BBC's flagship film show.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar played the lead character in the online animation Rajesh Finesse in 2014.
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In January 2021, Sanjeev Bhaskar was cast in the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar appeared as a guest on the BBC's Top Gear in 2003, setting a time of 1:51.0 around a wet Top Gear test track in a Suzuki Liana, placing him 32nd on the original leader board.
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In 2003, Sanjeev Bhaskar was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
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In 2005, Sanjeev Bhaskar was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List.
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On 26 July 2019, Sanjeev Bhaskar was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sussex in recognition of his ten years as chancellor.
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In January 2005, Sanjeev Bhaskar married comedian Meera Syal in Lichfield, Staffordshire.