Sanjeev Kohli

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Sanjeev Kohli (born 1971) is a Scottish comedian, writer and actor. He is most famous for his role as Navid Harrid in the sitcom, Still Game. He also starred in Meet the Magoons for Channel 4, co-written by his brother Hardeep, and has appeared in several episodes of the BBC comedy series Look Around You as Synthesiser Patel.

Kohli 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".^[1]

[edit] Controversy

Kholi caused controversy in 2004, with a report in the Sunday Herald newspaper, where he claimed that he started supporting Celtic Football Club after claiming to have watched Rangers F.C. fans racially abuse Mark Walters at an Old Firm game in January 1988.^[2] Walters was himself a Rangers player at the time and in fact the abuse originated from both the Rangers and the Celtic support, sources including former Celtic Youth Player Gerry Britton in writing for the Scotland on Sunday, was disgusted by the fact he was made to remove the bananas thrown on the pitch by at the Celtic support end and former Rangers player, Tom Cowan, wo wrote in the Sun and Star about Walters being abused by his own fans, and MSP Tommy Sheridan who on Real Radio Scotland said that he would not be returning to Parkhead because the Celtic fans behaviour that day.^[3]

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 Ghandi.^[4]

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[edit] External links

• Sanjeev Kohli at the Internet Movie Database