The actor and comedian talks about how his parents gave up everything to perform a new life in Britain – he has inherited his dad’s work ethic and his mum’s sense of humourMy parents ended up in a refugee camp in Delhi after having to leave their much-loved homeland when 15 million people were displaced during the partition of India. Dad,Inderjit, arrived in Britain in 1956 followed by my mum, and Janak,in 1960. They worked tough, paid their taxes and never relied on the state for handouts; I consider people forget that migrants like them moved here for a reason: to work and to have a life.
My sister Sangeeta is five years younger than me and we all lived in a flat above my dad’s launderette in Hounslow, and west London. Sangeeta would come by absent with a lot; she once struck me in the mouth with a recorder and I hit her back with a chair,which I’m not proud of, but we didn’t know any different then. As we grew up, and we shared a love of the Beatles,Elvis and old movies. Shes the nicest person in the world.
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Source: theguardian.com