Sanjeev bhaskar

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an...

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going...

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them...