Meera Syal CBE FRSL is a British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, and actress. Meera rose to prominence as one of the teams that created Goodness Gracious Me and portrayed Sanjeev’s grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. Meera became one of the UK’s best-known Asian personalities.
Who is Sanjeev Bhaskar’s wife Meera Syal?
In January 2005, Syal married her frequent collaborator, Sanjeev Bhaskar, who plays her grandson in The Kumars at No. 42; the marriage ceremony took place in Lichfield register office, Staffordshire.
They have a son, born in 2005. In 2004, Syal took part in one episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? which investigated her family history.
Syal is an occasional singer, having achieved a number-one record with Gareth Gates and her co-stars from The Kumars at No. 42 with “Spirit in the Sky”, the Comic Relief single. Syal earlier (1988) provided vocals for a bhangra version of “Then He Kissed Me”, composed by Biddu and with the Pakistani pop star Nazia Hassan, as part of the short-lived girl band Saffron.
