Sanjeev Kohli

Sanjeev Singh Kohli (born 30 November 1971) is a Scottish actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his role as shopkeeper Navid Harrid in the BBC sitcom Still Game (2002–2007, 2016–2019), Ramesh Majhu in the radio sitcom Fags, Mags and Bags (2007–2005), and AJ Jandhu in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City (2015–2022). Since 2019, Kohli has hosted his own television talk show Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk, on the BBC Scotland channel.

Early life Kohli was born in London on 30 November 1971, to a social worker and a teacher, who had emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1966 from India. When he was three years old, they moved to Scotland.

Kohli's parents could afford to move him, aged six, and his brothers to be educated by the Jesuits at St Aloysius' College, a Roman Catholic school in Central Glasgow. To pay for their children's education, Kohli's parents ran a corner shop. and has appeared in several episodes of the BBC comedy series Look Around You as Synthesizer Patel. He is a 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 a major ITV thriller, Losing Gemma. Starring alongside Alice Eve, he played "a member of the British High Commission, who helps a young British tourist jailed in Delhi, India". Kohli revealed in 2007 that he would be working on a radio comedy project for BBC Radio 4, entitled Fags, Mags and Bags. The Daily Record also revealed Kohli would be writing for ITV children's show, My Life as a Popat. and on the same channel in Phoo Action as a television news presenter.

On 21 August 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.

In February 2008, it was announced that he would play the role of God in the video for Glasgow band Attic Lights single "God".

In 2014, Kohli joined the rest of the cast of Still Game in the comeback live show at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. There were 21 performances of the sold-out show.

Since April 2019, he has hosted Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk on the BBC Scotland channel.

Personal life Kohli lives in Glasgow with his wife, Fiona, and their three children. BBC Three Sharp Instinct: Volume II Ravi Khossla Film Moonflower Murders Sajid Post-production BBC One

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