Sanjeev Kohli

Sanjeev Kohli

Born: November 30, 1971
in Brentford, London, England, UK
Sanjeev Singh Kohli is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known 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–present), and A.J. Jandhu in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City (2015–present). 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.

Movies for Sanjeev Kohli...

Title: Stonehouse
Character: Prosecuting Counsel
Released: January 2, 2023
Type: TV
Drama following the life and times of disgraced Labour politician John Stonehouse, a high-flying minister under Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s government vanished from the beach of a large luxury hotel in Florida in Nov. 1974, leaving a neatly folded pile of clothes as he swam into the sea, intent on faking his own death.
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Title: Magpie Murders
Character: Sajid Khan / Dr Kamal
Released: February 10, 2022
Type: TV
An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.
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Christmas with Strangers
Title: Christmas with Strangers
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2021
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the Scottish Indie feature film Lost at Christmas (2020). The stars and filmmakers take us on their journey from script to screen as the world braces itself for a global pandemic.
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Falling for Figaro
Title: Falling for Figaro
Character: Jimi
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
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Limbo
Title: Limbo
Character: Vikram
Released: April 30, 2021
Type: Movie
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
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The Magical Beacon Stone
Title: The Magical Beacon Stone
Character: Jagmohan McKay
Released: December 14, 2020
Type: Movie
When an evil genius steals the Magical Beacon Stone and forces the children of Inverclyde to toil in his factories, Bella and Jenny only have five days to find the Stone stop his schemes and save Christmas.
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Lost at Christmas
Title: Lost at Christmas
Character: Sid
Released: December 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in the remote Scottish town of Fort William on Christmas Eve, when life is turned upside down for Jen and Rob. Suddenly finding themselves heartbroken, single and stranded, they team up to try and reach home 100 miles away to be with their families. "Borrowing" Jen’s now ex-boyfriend’s classic car, the pair hit the road, but it’s not long before the weather turns for the worse forcing them to continue their journey on foot.
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Title: Avenue 5
Character: Stan Clark
Released: January 19, 2020
Type: TV
40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.
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The Last Mermaid
Title: The Last Mermaid
Released: September 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Secluded Glaswegian mermaid struggles in the face of pollution, sustainability.
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Stan & Ollie
Title: Stan & Ollie
Character: Glasgow Empire Manager
Released: December 28, 2018
Type: Movie
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public
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Super November
Title: Super November
Character: Big Sanj
Released: March 3, 2018
Type: Movie
An overly romantic librarian believes she's found the one after just three dates, but her friends are more concerned with political turmoil, which leads to a right wing coup.
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Title: Porters
Character: Muzz
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: TV
Deluded Simon Porter, dreams of becoming a doctor - but he has to start from the bottom and be a porter. His plan? Work his way up to be the best porter the NHS has ever seen.
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Title: Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: TV
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
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My Turban and Me
Title: My Turban and Me
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Comedian Sanjeev Kohli goes on a heartwarming personal journey to explore his own Sikh identity and find out why the turban is back in fashion for young Sikhs.
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Title: You, Me and the Apocalypse
Character: Doctor
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: TV
When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events imaginable is set in motion.
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Line Signal
Title: Line Signal
Character: Rob (voice)
Released: March 14, 2015
Type: Movie
A lone jogger starts witnessing strange happenings along a disused railway.
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Still Game: Live in Glasgow
Title: Still Game: Live in Glasgow
Character: Navid Harrid
Released: November 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill are back and reviving their much loved characters Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade for the first time in years! They've not been seen on the small screen since a Hogmanay special in January 2008, but this year sees a full reunion of the original television cast as Jack and Victor are reunited alongside other Still Game favourites Winston, Isa, Tam, Navid, and Bobby.
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Scotland In A Day
Title: Scotland In A Day
Released: September 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph and disaster.
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Walter
Title: Walter
Character: Hardeep
Released: August 8, 2014
Type: Movie
DI Walter Gambon is a self-styled “Yoda of the force”, whose workload suddenly increases when he’s handed the cases of an officer who committed suicide by throwing himself under a Tube train. Or was he pushed? Gambon must work out whether his former colleague was murdered, while tracking down another officer who has gone so far undercover that nobody knows where he (or she) is.
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Filth
Title: Filth
Character: Sunil
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: Movie
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Title: Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2009
Type: Movie
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
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Title: Phoo Action
Character: Alan Arthanayake
Released: February 12, 2008
Type: TV
The high-kicking, high-action exploits of Buddhist Kung-Fu law enforcement officer Terry Phoo and feisty teen-rebel turned super-hero Whitey Action, who form an unlikely but effective crime-fighting team taking on Britain's super-vile, super-famous mutated criminals, The Freebies.
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Title: Rush Hour
Released: March 19, 2007
Type: TV
Rush Hour is a sketch show made by Zeppotron and shown on BBC Three during March and April 2007. The show featured several sketches centred around characters travelling to work, school or otherwise, therefore many of the sketches took place inside a car or bus. Several cult and up and coming comedians and comic actors star in the show, each performing several of the characters. The cast includes Adam Buxton, Sanjeev Kohli, Miranda Hart, Frankie Boyle, David Armand, Marek Larwood, Kerry Godliman, Bruce Mackinnon, Naomi Bentley, Lorna Watson, and Katy Wix. BBC Three didn't recommission the show for a second series due to bad reviews.
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Title: The IT Crowd
Character: Booth
Released: February 3, 2006
Type: TV
Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.
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Title: Meet the Magoons
Released: August 19, 2005
Type: TV
Meet the Magoons is a six-part comedy television series in the United Kingdom aired on Channel 4 in 2005, directed by and starring Hardeep Singh Kohli. The main characters are a Punjabi family who live in Glasgow, and own an Indian restaurant called "The Spice". It received mixed reviews. A. A. Gill hoped it "might well evolve into something classic" and Nancy Banks-Smith of The Guardian called it "modern to the point of surreal". A second series was not commissioned.
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Festival
Title: Festival
Character: Ahmed Khan
Released: July 15, 2005
Type: Movie
'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
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Title: Shoebox Zoo
Character: Mr. Kasmani
Released: September 21, 2004
Type: TV
Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancient book that once belonged to a great and powerful wizard.
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Title: Look Around You
Character: Synthesizer Patel
Released: October 10, 2002
Type: TV
LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?
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Title: Still Game
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: TV
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
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Title: Still Game
Character: Navid Harrid
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: TV
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
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Title: Moonflower Murders
Character: Sajid Khan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there. Cecily Treherne, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?