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Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar, OBE (born 31 October 1963) is a British comedian, actor and broadcaster, best known for his work in the BBC Two sketch comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and star of the sitcom The Kumars at No. 42. He also 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. Bhaskar's more dramatic acting roles include the lead role of Dr Prem Sharma in The Indian Doctor and a main role as DI Sunny Khan in Unforgotten. Bhaskar is currently the Chancellor of the University of Sussex. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2006, Bhaskar was honoured with the Order of the British Empire.
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1963-10-31
Birth Place
Ealing, London, England
Education
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Spouse(s)
Meera_Syal
Children
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digitalspy.com

Unforgotten's Sanjeev Bhaskar teases Cassie's replacement in season 5

Unforgotten spoilers follow. Unforgotten's Sanjeev Bhaskar has opened up about his co-star Nicola Walker's replacement on the show's new season. Following Unforgotten's shock season 4 finale, which saw DCI Cassie Stuart killed off in a car crash, DI Sunny Khan was left alone without a partner for the first time during the series' four-year reign.
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Unforgotten's Sanjeev Bhaskar teases what's next in series 5

Unforgotten is carrying on with series 5, despite the series 4 finale killing off one of its lead characters in Nicola Walker's Cassie Stuart. We know that Sanjeev Bhaskar's Sunny Khan is getting paired up with a new female detective, but one thing we were wondering is how much time would pass between stories. Will the show examine his grief in the immediate aftermath of Cassie's death, or jump ahead and show the long term effects?
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August Sanjeev Bhaskar And The Indian Doctor

British actor/comedian/author Sanjeev Bhaskar is known in the U.S. mainly for his role as DI Sunny Khan (he who carries the much-discussed backpack!) in the popular ITV crime series Unforgotten. After a shake-up at the end of series 4, which recently aired on PBS and is available on DVD and for streaming, an announcement confirmed that there will be a season 5, and Sanjeev Bhaskar will continue to be starred or co-starred.
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Unforgotten: Sanjeev Bhaskar reveals touching Nicola Walker note that made him cry after filming episode 6

Sanjeev Bhaskar has shared a touching note Nicola Walker wrote him on the set of Unforgotten.The actor, who plays DI Sunil “Sunny” Khan, didn’t read the note until the sixth and final episode of the hit ITV drama’s latest run had completed filming.Shortly after its broadcast on Monday (28 March), he posted the note’s emotional contents on Twitter, which took on heartbreaking light in the wake of the episode’s events.*Spoilers follow – you have been warned*After solving the investigation into the historic death of Matthew Lewis, Sunny discovered that his boss and best friend Walker’s DCI Cassie Stuart had died from...
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Unforgotten episode 5: Sanjeev Bhaskar reacts to ‘savage’ Cassie ending that left viewers ‘screaming’

Unforgotten viewers – including star Sanjeev Baskhar – are reacting to the surprise ending of the latest episode.The ITV drama’s fourth series aired its penultimate episode on Monday (22 March), dropping perhaps the most shocking twist to date.Fans of the show are now agonising over having to wait a week for the sixth and final episode – and are worried about the fate of one of the show’s main characters.*Spoilers follow – you have been warned*Episode five saw DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DI Sunny Khan (Bhaskar) get closer to the truth about what happened to Matthew Walsh, the...
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Unforgotten star Sanjeev Bhaskar shares behind the scenes pranks

Unforgotten star Sanjeev Bhaskar has revealed the secret behind one of the show's biggest mysteries. No, it's not how that man ended up without a head in the fridge (more answers to come as the series continues) but a more pressing matter -but it's what exactly is inside DI Sunny Khan's back pack.
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The Independent

Unforgotten review, season 4: A dollop of high-grade ITV magic

After Covid-related filming delays, the exceedingly likeable detective drama Unforgotten returns to ITV for a fourth six-part series. This first episode begins with a decapitated male body found spilling out of an old freezer at the dump in Haringey – quite literally a cold case, so much so that his skin has acquired the look of over-chilled meat. The only clues to this cadaver’s identity are a Marathon chocolate bar wrapper, dating the death to before the Snickers transition, and a Millwall tattoo.
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The Guardian

TV tonight: Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar open another cold case

Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar reprise their roles as DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan in the fourth season of this cold case drama. Sunny gets to work unearthing a new historical murder to delve into – namely the discovery of a dismembered body in a scrap yard, which he believes has been stored in a freezer for decades. With Cassie having retired from the force and struggling to care for her father and his worsenning dementia, a technicality soon pulls her back to work on the case with her longtime partner. Ammar Kalia.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar: 'There was a lot of casual racism growing up - I got it from teachers and bus drivers'

‘Unfortunately, my mind goes straight to Starsky and Hutch,” says Sanjeev Bhaskar, when I ask him about his favourite cop duos. For a teenager of the 1970s, that’s not a surprise, nor is the fact that the former Goodness Gracious Me star used to have on his wall a Charlie’s Angels poster that he’d torn out of a magazine. “I didn’t really rate them as cops,” he confesses.
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